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Show In the early 1980s the Bureau of Land Management began an ambitious study of pre-historic roads associated with the Chaco Canyon complex. The authors of the first resulting publication, Chaco Roads Project, Phase I: A Reappraisal of Prehistoric Roads in the San Juan Basin, recommended that a "strict no-collection policy" be implemented towards the areas in question, in order to prevent damage to these very important cultural remains. The project set as one of its important goals, the establishment of "criteria to test the existence and validity of prehistoric roads, and to collect sufficient information for the development of a comprehensive prehistoric roads management program if they were, in fact, proven to exist." 215 It appears that the Zuni trail to Kolhu/wala:wa has a material relationship to the Anasazi road system, and further that Mr. Ferguson's assessment of the trail is correct. It follows that all available means should be used to preserve We:sak'yaya Onnane and Kolhu/wala:wa, not only to guarantee the Zunis' rights, but to prevent the destruction of cultural and material resources of great value, not only to Zuni, but to archaeologists, historians and the general public at large. Elsewhere the author has written fairly extensively on the subject of Zuni trade and trails. This material is included as Appendix V. 215. Kincaid, Chris Chaco Roads Project, Phase I: A Reappraisal of Prehistoric Roads in the San Juan Basin, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Albuquerque, 1983, p. XXV. - 141 - |
