The Great Houses of Chaco

Chaco is a majestic ancient city in the forbidding landscape of northwest New Mexico. The ruins are famous for the five-story stone houses built between 900 and 1250 AD, featured in the book’s 55 exquisite black & white photographs. The pictures capture the architectural majesty of this desert city and its environs. The elite who inhabited these massive buildings once ruled a 60,000-square-mile trading network. In spite of a century of investigation, though, many still debate the rise a