A thousand years ago, when their civilization arose in the Southwest, the people who built these great stone structures did not call themselves Anasazi. The word did not even exist: It was created, ...

A new computer simulation of the changing environmental conditions around one of the Anasazi cultural centers early in the past millennium suggest that drought was not the only factor behind a sudden ...

The Anasazi people of New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon had a sophisticated trade structure with other tribes before their civilization was felled by a 50-year drought in the 12th century, according to ...

New evidence may prove that the Anasazi cliff dwellers went farther south than previously believed. Two archeologists excavating a ruin near Truth or Consequences said that they may have uncovered one ...

We start from the premise that ceramic evolution created the paste-compositional and formal diversity of archaeological ceramic assemblages. After discussing alternative models of formal and ...

Towering structures carved into cliffs, vibrant art etched in stone—and then, nothing. The fate of the Anasazi is one of America’s oldest unsolved disappearances. Homeland Security requests National ...

The results of a stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratio analysis on the bone collagen from 17 individuals recovered from eight Virgin Anasazi sites in southern Utah are reported. The results ...