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Odyssey. The Chaco Legacy
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Travel back 900 years to uncover the puzzling sophistication and technological genius of the Chaco Canyon inhabitants. How did this civilization build complex and comprehensive projects such as a n...
Travel back 900 years to uncover the puzzling sophistication and technological genius of the Chaco Canyon inhabitants. How did this civilization build complex and comprehensive projects such as a network of roads connecting 70 outlying communities? Anthropologists believe the Chaco civilization was an ingenious technological society that subsequently collapsed because of the gradual depletion of its resource bases.
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- Creator
- Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
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- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2013], c1980
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (59 min.) : sd., col
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn869223404
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on December 08, 2013.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- The Chaco Legacy (2:14) -- Chaco Canyon Dwelling Structures (2:29) -- Chaco Canyon Discovery (2:03) -- Excavating Pueblo Bonito (4:22) -- Chacoan Timeline of Construction (2:42) -- Chaco Masonry Styles (2:33) -- The Great Kiva (2:11) -- Great Townships in Chaco Canyon (2:05) -- Chaco Wash (2:31) -- Collecting Rain Water (2:48) -- Chaco Irrigation Technique (2:24) -- Interpreting Archeology (3:33) -- Salmon Ruins (3:18) -- Chacoan Outliers (2:47) -- Trading System in Chaco Canyon (2:44) -- Ancient Communication Experiment (3:51) -- Casa Cielo (3:36) -- Importance of Great Kiva (2:38) -- Fall of Chacoan Society (2:21) -- Mystery of Chaco (3:07) -- Credits: Odyssey: The Chaco Legacy (1:35)