Articles for tag: Anasazi civilization, Ancestral Puebloans, mystery of the Anasazi, Native American history, Southwest archaeology

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The Anasazi Disappearance: What Made an Entire Civilization Vanish?

Suhail Ahmed

  Across the stone cities of the American Southwest, cliff dwellings cling to canyon walls like last messages written in sandstone. For more than a century, archaeologists and visitors have wondered why the people who built them – often called the Anasazi, more respectfully known today as the Ancestral Puebloans – seemed to depart in ...