Mesa Verde National Park Located near Cortez and Mancos, CO TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS Mesa Verde's Point Lookout and North Rim through a Spring Shower and Rainbow from Cortez - Photographer: Alisa Gardiner IN BRIEF Mesa Verde, Spanish for green table , offers an unparalleled opportunity to see and experience a unique cultural and physical landscape.

Hovenweep National Monument Located near Blanding, UT TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS Stronghold House, which is part of the Square Tower Group. (NPS photo by Neal Herbert) IN BRIEF Hovenweep National Monument protects five prehistoric, Puebloan-era villages spread over a twenty-mile expanse of mesa tops and canyons along the Utah-Colorado border. The ...

The Ancestral Puebloans created a thriving civilization and built hundred-room cities in Mesa Verde Country's mountains, mesas and canyons.

Like their cultural kin ...

Canyonlands National Park, Utah: Nature and Wildflower Photography featuring Utah's Great Canyonlands National Park ...

Ancient Indian ruins in the four corners area of the Southwest ...

Copyright 1996 The New York Times Company The New York Times August 20, 1996, Tuesday, Late Edition - Final Section C; Page 1; Column 3; Science Desk 1903 words Social Strife May Have Exiled Ancient Indians By GEORGE JOHNSON SANTA FE, N.M. UNTIL very recently, the most perplexing mystery of Southwestern archeology -- what caused the collapse of the ancient empire of the Anasazi -- seemed all but ...

Anasazi Hisatsinom: Sky Scraper Builders Well, small ones anyway, some as high as five stories. We will begin to use Hisatsinom as the preferred term by the Hopi, but continue to show the relationship with the Dineh term Anasazi. The picture here is of the southeast wall of the Pueblo del Arroyo at the Chaco Culture Historical Site. Notice the woman at the right edge of the picture. She is about ...

Chaco Canyon: Land of the Ancient Strangers Chaco Culture National Historic Park, New Mexico If you look at the map, you will see a big empty space in the northwest corner of New Mexico, with hardly a road bothering to criss-cross it. This mostly unpopulated immensity is Anasazi (a Navajo word, meaning ancient strangers, or the ancient ones) country. It hides prehistoric ruins of the first rank.

Last Modified: 961011 Return Map of Anasazi Territory It is a pet peeve of mine that many works on the Southwest make reference to its many river valleys, but do not include a reference map. That is not a problem with the present textbook in AnLD 90, but in order to address it in previous years I made up this quick reference map that identifies the major river valleys along which the Anasazi and ...