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Mesa Verde Mummy Lake: Not a Lake
Mesa Verde Lake Not a Lake After All Mesa Verde Mummy Lake: Reservoir or Ritual Space? Composite photo by Jeff Posey An interesting study about the Anasazi in Mesa Verde National Park (link to National...
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The Anasazi Buildings of Chaco Canyon: Largest “Apartments” in World
The Anasazi buildings in Chaco Canyon were the largest apartment-style structures in the world until 1882 Among the Anasazi buildings in Chaco Canyon, Pueblo Bonito (“pretty village” in Spanish) may...
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Were the Anasazi Nazis?
Not actual Nazis. That’s absurd. But how much were they like Nazis? Were they authoritarian? Violent? A force that invaded from the outside and subjugated the indigenous people using threats of...
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Were the Anasazi Cannibals?
Were the Anasazi Cannibals? What a question to even ask, right? We don’t go around asking if Napoleon and his army were cannibals. We don’t question if the perpetrators of the September 11, 2001,...
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Why Did the Anasazi Collapse?
This is the single most enduring question about the Anasazi culture. Why did they abandon the Four Corners of the American Southwest by about A.D. 1300? There are several competing and commingling...
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Anasazi Rich: Kings, Commoners, and Collapse
For me, it all started with the Anasazi. Those ruins in the desert. Enormous stacks of mute stones, placed there by hands motivated by…what? I asked myself the same questions everyone asks when they...
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