The Ancient Ones: Before Chaco

This episode of the American Southwest Podcast is the 3rd in the series about the original Native American inhabitants of the region and specifically about the people of the southwest before the Anasazi and Chaco from the end of the Paleoindian period through the Archaic, Basketmaker II, Basketmaker III, and into the very beginning of the Pueblo I period. It covers the climatic changes, the introduction of corn, beans, the bow and arrow, pit houses, and the introduction of ideas from Central America.

War in the Southwest, War in the World by Stephen Lekson

Prehistoric Warfare in the American Southwest by Steven A Leblanc

In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest by David Roberts

Behind the Bears Ears: Exploring the Cultural and Natural Histories of a Sacred Landscape

Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest by Stephen Plog

A Study of Southwestern Archaeology by Stephen Lekson

Tracing Time: Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau by Craig Childs

House of Rain: Tracing a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest by Craig Childs

Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America by Craig Childs