Turning Tides: Puebloan Peoples: Dagger to the Sun, 20,000 B.C.E. - 1150 C.E.: Episode 1

Turning Tides: Puebloan Peoples will discuss the original inhabitants of the American Southwest and their contributions to modern-day architecture and art. The first episode, Dagger to the Sun, will cover the period from 20,000 B.C.E. to 1150 C.E., in which the Ancestral Puebloans migrated throughout the American southwest and began to build a distinct culture in the deserts of Chaco Canyon.

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Produced by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone in affiliation with AntiKs Entertainment.

Researched and written by Joseph Pascone

Edited and revised by Melissa Marie Brown

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Episode 1 Sources:

1. Anasazi of Chaco Canyon: Greatest Mystery of the American Southwest, by Kyle Widner

2. A Study of Southwestern Archaeology, by Stephen H. Lekson

3. Ancient Pueblos Sacred Places: A Field Guide to the Important Puebloan Ruins in the Southwest, by Buddy Mays

4. House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest, by Craig Childs

5. Mesa Verde: The History of the Ancient Pueblo Settlement, by Dr. Jesse Harasta and Charles River Editors

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

7. A talk on Kivas featuring Steve Lekson and others: https://crowcanyon.org/resources/why-do-we-call-them-kivas/

8. Christy G. Turner III, Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in the Prehistoric American Southwest. (University of Utah Press, 2011)

9. The Casas Grandes Flower World and its Antecedents in Northwest Mesoamerica and the U.S. Southwest. Michael Mathiowetz. Presented at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archeology, Albuquerque, NM. 2019 (tDar id: 450449) https://core.tdar.org/document/450449/the-casas-grandes-flower-world-and-its-antecedents-in-northwest-mesoamerica-and-the-us-southwest

10. Shannon Burke’s Thesis Project: The Commodified Kokopelli, 2025: https://kokopelli.georgetown.domains/a-huge-misunderstanding/

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