The early Anasazi -- On top of the mesa -- Life among the Anasazi -- Moving to the cliffs -- Mysteries and discoveries -- Conclusion Summary Discusses the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde, Colorado, and ...

More than 20 years ago, when I was teaching on the Navajo reservation in the northeast corner of Arizona, I climbed up an escarpment to see ancient figurative drawings in a niche in a cliff. These ...

Mapuche Indigenous leaders conducted an ancestral ceremony of the Anasazi culture - Copyright AFP William WEST Mapuche Indigenous leaders conducted an ancestral ...

THEY lived on the edge of the world, in the red mountains of the desert Southwest, in houses with T-shaped doorways tuned to arcane celestial events. They fashioned elaborate pottery, grew corn and ...

Susan Ryan called in November to tell me that her excavation was going to be buried. The ancient village she had been carefully unearthing would soon disappear under the blade of a tractor, turned ...

Kiva, Vol. 60, No. 2, Anasazi Origins: Recent Research on the Basketmaker II (Winter, 1994), pp. 313-327 (15 pages) New research on Anasazi origins is augmented with data from sandals, baskets, and ...