David E. Stuart is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of New Mexico and the former acting director of the School of Advanced Research, where he also served as a senior scholar at the School for Advanced Research from 2013 to 2019, and he is author of The Ancient Southwest: Chaco Canyon, Bandelier, and Mesa Verde; Anasazi America: Seventeen Centuries on the Road from Center Place; and Pueblo Peoples on the Pajarito Plateau: Archaeology and Efficiency (all from UNM Press).

"In this groundbreaking new study, anthropologist David Stuart makes a compelling case for the Chacoan people of a thousand years ago as the developers of the earliest garden systems in New Mexico, a breakthrough that made Chaco society possible for hundreds of years."--Baker H. Morrow, coeditor of Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Pub date: 2025-10-01

Length: 232 pages