Over the last five years, European visitors have flocked to the American Southwest in such numbers that attendance has doubled at many of the region`s national parks and monuments. Four Corners ...

Though the dogma may be irrecoverable, Dr. Glowacki argues that it rapidly attracted adherents. ... Excavations indicate that the population burgeoned along with the new architecture. An influx of ...

Dec. 31, 2000 - FOUR CORNERS - Durango archaeologist Gary Matlock was a "conflict and violence man" long before it was popular and before most academics found it acceptable to discuss bloodshed and ...

I am practically a native of the Southwest, but it wasn`t until recent years that I acquired my liking for the stark, seemingly colorless landscape of the Four Corners area. So I was shocked the first ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Piles of human bones burned and boiled, smashed and scraped. Cooking pots smeared with blood. A few years ago, anthropologists in the American Southwest uncovered the grisly remains of what appeared ...

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 ...