Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Understanding Chaco: Past, Present, and Future - Stephen Plog -- 2. Reevaluating and Modeling Agricultural Potential in the Chaco Core - R. Gwinn Vivian and Adam S. Watson -- 3. The Relevance of Maize Pollen for Assessing the Extent of Maize Production in Chaco Canyon - Phil R. Geib and Carrie C. Heitman -- 4. A Perishable Perspective on Chacoan Social Identities - Edward A. Jolie and Laurie D. Webster -- 5. Bones as Raw Material: Temporal Trends and Spatial Variability in the Chacoan Bone Tool Industry - Adam S. Watson -- 6. Human Burials of Chaco Canyon: New Developments in Cultural Interpretations through Skeletal Analysis - Kerriann Marden -- 7. A Biological Perspective on Chacoan Identity - Meradeth Snow and Steven A. LeBlanc -- 8. The House of Our Ancestors: New Research on the Prehistory of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, A.D. 800-1200 - Carrie C. Heitman -- 9. Unpacking the House: Ritual Practice and Social Networks at Chaco - Barbara J. Mills -- 10. Chacoan Kinship - Peter Whiteley -- 11. Looking North toward Chaco with Awe and Envy . . . Mostly - Paul E. Minnis -- 12. Chaco: The View from Downstream - Kelley Hays-Gilpin and John Ware -- Editors and Contributors -- Index.