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Although less well known than the Mayans, the Anasazi, who flourished in the region now known as New Mexico, also vanished without a trace. Now, eight centuries after their thriving, 2,000-year-old civilization disappeared as though it had never existed, naturalist and adventurer Childs undertakes to find out where the Anasazi went and why. But discovering the fate of an entire race of people, 800 years after the fact, is not like tracking down a...

At its pinnacle in A.D. 1150, the Anasazi empire was vast and sophisticated, unequaled until the arrival of the Europeans--and then they simply disappeared.Dr. Maureen Cole, one of the world's foremost physical anthropologists, is called in to examine and evaluate a mass grave discovered in New Mexico. The burial site contains nothing but the shattered skulls of women and children. As Dr. Cole works to unravel the mystery of these deaths, strange...

A photo essay of journey to Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, examining Anasazi ruins, culture, and theories of why the Anasazi abandoned the region.

Nowhere in North America did pre-Columbian culture reach a more spectacular expression than at Chaco Canyon in the desert of what is now northwestern New Mexico. There, nine centuries ago, flourished a society that built monumental stone towns, great kivas, and an extensive network of roads leading to distant communities.

"In this thoughtful and picturesque work, Jack Campbell explores in elegant black and while photographs the wonderfully intricate structures that have come to define Chaco Canyon. David Stuart and Thomas Windes provide essays helping place the photographs within their historic contexts, and Katherine Kallestad has written captions that explain the images themselves. Together, they produce a line work for park visitors who want to better understand...

Anna Sofaer found the now-famous "Sun Dagger" petroglyph site on a desert butte high above Chaco Culture National Historical Park at Summer Solstice in 1977, leading to 30 years research into the meaning of ancient Chaco's astronomical expressions. Chaco Astronomy brings together all the major findings of Solstice Project's many researchers, changing forever the understanding of a place often called "America's Stonehenge" Nine revealing chapters explore...

Two of the Southwest's most sophisticated prehistoric cultures were those developed by the Hohokam, agricultural desert-dwellers of Southern Arizona, and the Chaco Canyon Anasazi, builders of the great pueblos of New Mexico. In recent years, the archaeological data base on these peoples has virtually exploded, and this book offers the first major synthesis of these new data. Eleven archaeologists present the most current thinking about the regional...

Relates the nineteenth-century discovery of cliff dwellings in the Chaco Canyon of northwest New Mexico, the excavations of the ancient ruins, and what the artifacts reveal about the civilization of the ancient Pueblo Indians.

Southwestern archaeologists have long pondered the meaning and importance of the monumental 11th century structures in Chaco Canyon. Now, Stephen Lekson offers a lively, provocative thesis which attempts to reconceptualize the meaning of Chaco and its importance to the understanding of the entire Southwest.