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Ruth at a pottery workshop |
• Research •
RUTH VAN DYKE (PhD, Arizona, 1998) is an archaeologist who specializes in the prehistoric American Southwest, specifically the Ancestral Pueblo peoples of the Chaco Canyon and Four Corners regions. Her research interests include landscape, architecture, social and political authority, memory, ritual, and phenomenology. Ruth is currently completing a book on landscape and society in Chaco Canyon entitled Experiencing Chaco (forthcoming, School of Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe). Ongoing field projects include a survey of Canyons of the Ancients National Monument in southwestern Colorado, and investigations into Chacoan outliers, shrines and visibility across northwest New Mexico. Ruth joined the faculty of Colorado College in 2001.
• Some Recent Publications •
Seeing the Past: Visual Media in Archaeology (2006)
Chaco’s Sacred Geography (2004)
Memory, Meaning, and Masonry: The Late Bonito Chacoan Landscape (2004)
Archaeologies of Memory (2003)
Bounding Chaco: Assessing Great House Architectural Variability Across Time and Space (2003)
The Chacoan Great Kiva in Outlier Communities (2002)
Chacoan Ritual
Landscapes: The View from the Red Mesa Valley (2000)
The Andrews Community: An Early Bonito Phase Chacoan
Outlier in the Red Mesa Valley, New Mexico (1999)
The Chaco Connection: Evaluating Bonito Style Architecture
in Outlier Communities (1999)
A Space Syntax Analysis of Guadalupe Ruin (1999)