I spent the night at the Recapture Lodge poring over maps and guidebooks, growing increasingly daunted by my quest. Every major canyon on Cedar Mesa held Anasazi ruins. And countless relics lie ...

BOULDER, Colo. — Newly discovered evidence is shedding light on the movements of the Anasazi, a group of agricultural people who farmed the arid section of the Southwest from roughly AD 1 to AD ...

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Around A.D. 1250, seeking refuge from some unknown threat, the Anasazi migrated from open villages to nearly inaccessible dwellings. A generation later, they moved again. Douglas Merriam In 1874 ...