Chaco Resources

Digital Monographs

The following published texts on Chaco Canyon and Aztec Ruins are no longer in print. They are now digitally available thanks to Andrew W. Mellon funding for the Chaco Research Archive in collaboration with the University of Virginia’s Digital Library Production Services.

Texts from the University of Virginia Digital Library Production Services

If you encounter any difficulties or if you find problems with the texts, please let us know or use the feedback section of the Digital Collections website to inform the library directly. There is also a “Help” section of the Digital Collections website that explains its various tools and functions.

Donald D. Brand, Florence M. Hawley, and Frank C. Hibben, et al.

• 1937  Tseh So, a small house ruin, Chaco canyon, New Mexico. Albuquerque, N. M. Preliminary Report. University of New Mexico Bulletin No. 308, Anthropological Series 2(2). University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. University of Virginia Library Digital Collections, 2005.

Judd, Neil Merton.

• 1964 The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito.  Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 147(1).Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. University of Virginia Library Digital Collections, 2005.
• 1959 Pueblo del Arroyo, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 138(1).Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
• 1954  The material culture of Pueblo Bonito. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 124.Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. University of Virginia Library Digital Collections, 2005

Kluckhohn, Clyde and Paul Reiter (editors)

• 1939 Preliminary report on the 1937 excavations, Bc 50-51, Canyon, New Mexico, with some distributional analyses. University of New Mexico Bulletin 345, Anthropological Series 3(2). University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. University of Virginia Library Digital Collections. 2005.

Texts from the American Museum of Natural History Research Library, Scientific Publications

The following texts are publicly available via The American Museum of Natural History, Research Library.

Morris, Earl Halstead.

• 1928 Notes on excavations in the Aztec ruin. Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History. v. 26, Part IV, pp. 259-420.
• 1927 The beginnings of pottery making in the San Juan area; unfired prototypes and the wares of the earliest ceramic period. Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History. v. 28, pt. II, pp. 125-198.
• 1924 Burials in the Aztec ruin; The Aztec ruin annex. Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History. v. 26, Part III-IV, pp. 139-257.
• 1921 The house of the great kiva at the Aztec ruin. Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History. v. 26, Part II, pp. 109-138.
• 1918 The Aztec ruin. Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History. v. 26, Part I, pp. 3-108.

Pepper, George Hubbard

• 1920 Pueblo Bonito. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History. v. 27.

Publications in Archeology, Chaco Canyon Studies, National Park Service

The following texts were digitized by the National Park Service Denver Service Center and are now publicly available via the Chaco Research Archive.

Hayes, Alden C., David M. Brugge, and W. James Judge

• 1981  Archeological Surveys of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Publications in Archeology 18A, Chaco Canyon Studies.  National Park Service, Washington, D.C.

Lekson, Stephen H.

• 1984  Great Pueblo Architecture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico.  Publications in Archeology 18H, Chaco Canyon Studies.  National Park Service, Albuquerque.

Mathien, Frances Joan

• 2005    Culture and Ecology of Chaco Canyon and the San Juan Basin.  Publications in Archeology 18H, Chaco Canyon Studies.  National Park Service, Santa Fe.

Mathien, Frances Joan (editor)

• 1997  Ceramics, Lithics and Ornaments of the Prehistoric People of Chaco Canyon.  Volume 1.  Ceramics. Publications in Archeology 18G, Chaco Canyon Studies.  National Park Service, Santa Fe.
• 1997  Ceramics, Lithics and Ornaments of the Prehistoric People of Chaco Canyon.  Volume 2.  Lithics. Publications in Archeology 18G, Chaco Canyon Studies.  National Park Service, Santa Fe.
• 1997  Ceramics, Lithics and Ornaments of the Prehistoric People of Chaco Canyon.  Volume 3.  Lithics and Ornaments. Publications in Archeology 18G, Chaco Canyon Studies.  National Park Service, Santa Fe.
• 1985  Environment and Subsistence of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico.  Publications in Archeology 18E, Chaco Canyon Studies.  National Park Service, Albuquerque.

Mathien, Frances Joan and Thomas C. Windes (editors)

• 1987  Investigations at the Pueblo Alto Complex, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, 1975-1979.  Volume III, Part 1.  Artifactual and Biological Analyses.  Publications in Archeology 18F, Chaco Canyon Studies.  National Park Service, Santa Fe.
• 1987  Investigations at the Pueblo Alto Complex, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, 1975-1979.  Volume III, Part 2. Artifactual and Biological Analyses.  Publications in Archeology 18F, Chaco Canyon Studies.  National Park Service, Santa Fe.
• 1987  Investigations at the Pueblo Alto Complex, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, 1975-1979.  Volume IV. Artifactual and Biological Analyses.  Publications in Archeology 18F, Chaco Canyon Studies.  National Park Service, Santa Fe.

McKenna, Peter J. and Marcia L. Truell

• 1986    Small Site Architecture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico.  Publications in Archeology 18D, Chaco Canyon Studies.  National Park Service, Santa Fe.

Windes, Thomas C.

• 1987  Investigations at the Pueblo Alto Complex, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, 1975-1979.  Volume I.  Summary of Tests and Excavations at the Pueblo Alto Community.  Publications in Archeology 18F, Chaco Canyon Studies.  National Park Service, Santa Fe.
• 1987  Investigations at the Pueblo Alto Complex, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, 1975-1979.  Volume II, Part 1. Architecture and Stratigraphy. Publications in Archeology 18F, Chaco Canyon Studies.  National Park Service, Santa Fe.
• 1987  Investigations at the Pueblo Alto Complex, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, 1975-1979.  Volume II, Part 2. Architecture and Stratigraphy. Publications in Archeology 18F, Chaco Canyon Studies.  National Park Service, Santa Fe.

White Papers, Chaco Culture National Historical Park, Intermountain Regional Office, National Park Service

Van Dyke, Ruth, Stephen Lekson, and Carrie Heitman with a contribution by Julian Thomas

• 2016 Chaco Landscapes: Data, Theory and Management. White Paper produced for the National Park Service in partial fulfillment of CESU Master Agreement P14AC00979, Project Number: UCOB-109 to Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico by the University of Colorado, Boulder. Retrieved from the Chaco Research Archive, http://www.chacoarchive.org.

Reports of the Chaco Center, Branch of Cultural Research, National Park Service

The following texts were digitized by the National Park Service Denver Service Center and are now publicly available via the Chaco Research Archive.

Akins, Nancy J.

• 1986  A Biocultural Approach to Human Burials from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Reports of the Chaco Center, Number 9.  Branch of Cultural Research, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Judge, W. James and John D. Schelberg

• 1984  Recent Research on Chaco Prehistory. Reports of the Chaco Center, Number 8.  Branch of Cultural Research, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Lekson, Stephen H.

• 1983  The Architecture and Dendrochronoloyg of Chetro Keto, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Reports of the Chaco Center, Number 6.  Branch of Cultural Research, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Mathien, Frances Joan (editor)

• 1991  Excavations at 29SJ 633: The Eleventh Hour Site Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Reports of the Chaco Center, Number 10.  Branch of Cultural Research, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
• 1992  Excavations at 29SJ 627, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Volume II. The Artifact Analyses. Reports of the Chaco Center, Number 11.  Branch of Cultural Research, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

McKenna, Peter J.

• 1984  The Architecture and Material Culture of 29SJ1360, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Reports of the Chaco Center, Number 7.  Branch of Cultural Research, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Powers, Robert P., William B. Gillespie, and Stephen H. Lekson

• 1983  The Outlier Survey:  A Regional View of Settlement in the San Juan Basin. Reports of the Chaco Center, Number 3.  Branch of Cultural Research, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Powers, Robert P. and Ruth M. Van Dyke (editors)

• 2015  The Chaco Additions Survey:  An Archaeological Survey of the Additions to Chaco Culture National Historical Park .Reports of the Chaco Center, National Park Service, No. 14. Published by Chaco Research Archive through IATH, University of Virginia, http://www.chacoarchive.org/ChacoAdditionsSurveycover.html.

Truell, Marcia L.

• 1992  Excavations at 29SJ 627, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Volume I. The Architecture and Stratigraphy. Reports of the Chaco Center, Number 11.  Branch of Cultural Research, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Windes, Thomas C.

• 1993  The Spadefoot Toad Site, Investigations at 29SJ 629 in Marcia’s Rincon and the Fajada Gap Pueblo II Community, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, Volume 1. Reports of the Chaco Center, Number 12.  Branch of Cultural Research, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, New Mexico.
• 1993  The Spadefoot Toad Site, Investigations at 29SJ 629 in Marcia’s Rincon and the Fajada Gap Pueblo II Community, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, Volume 2.  Reports of the Chaco Center, Number 12.  Branch of Cultural Research, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, New Mexico.