Chaco Canyon reburial programme
| Autor: | Shin Maekawa, Robert A. Blanchette, Michael Romero Taylor, Neville Agnew, Martha Demas, Dabney Ford, Katherine Dowdy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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| Zdroj: | Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites. 6:177-202 |
| ISSN: | 1753-5522 1350-5033 |
| DOI: | 10.1179/135050304793137658 |
| Popis: | Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwestern New Mexico contains a wealth of archaeological resources, including 150 large earth and masonry structures under active management and preservation. In response to loss of original fabric from exposure over the last 100 years and more, as well as from continuous cycles of maintenance and repair, an extensive and long-term reburial programme was embarked upon in the late 1980s. The overall context of the site and the decision to undertake reburial as a principal conservation strategy is described in Part I of this paper. Part II provides a summary of the results of partial reburial at Chetro Ked, one of the ‘great houses’ of the canyon, in which protection of original timber was the main objective. Most of the wood at Chetro Ked could be covered only by a shallow overburden of soil, necessitating a specialized reburial design and materials to exclude moisture. Recent evaluation of the efficacy of the wood reburial was undertaken. Problems and s... |
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