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‘Leaving more than footprints’: modern votive offerings at Chaco Canyon prehistoric site

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Christine Finn
Christine Finn*
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Institute of Archaeology, 36 Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PG, England. Email: [email protected]
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A ‘heritage manager’ who wishes a quiet and an orderly life may hope their heritage place is culturally dead; whatever meaning it once had, now it is an archaeological site, an ancient monument, a tourist attraction. But many sites are not dead. Chaco Canyon, the celebrated complex in the desert of the US Southwest, is of continuing value to Native Americans of its region; and the place has become a focus for New Age ceremony — itself in part inspired by Native American knowledge.

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 271 , March 1997 , pp. 169 - 178
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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