Tracking a Vanished Civilization in the Southwest For 1,000 years, the Anasazi Indians were lords of what's now the American Southwest. Then, apparently without warning, they all but vanished.

Carson City and Douglas County high school teachers and students are helping to map and excavate a site once inhabited by a mysteriously vanished Native American people. The group joined colleagues ...

Because Anasazi culture was so complex–for instance, they had separate governments ruling in the summer and winter–Gumerman suggests that the parched valley couldn’t support a critical mass ...

The 6,000-square-foot museum has two floors of exhibits that showcase artifacts from Central Puebloan (Anasazi) culture with some items dating back to 1125 A.D. Visitors will see more than 900 ...

But new research has laid open a detailed record showing that climate was indeed what drove the Anasazi to the heights of their civilization and to their mysterious end.

For 1,000 years, the Anasazi Indians were lords of what's now the American Southwest. Then, apparently without warning, they all but vanished. Commentator Craig Childs says climate changes helped ...

For 1,000 years, long before Columbus, the Anasazi Indians were lords of what's now the American Southwest. Their civilization was as complex and sophisticated as that of the Mayans. Then ...