Researcher Stephen Lekson of the University of Colorado said he and his team linked three southern New Mexico ruins to the Anasazi and found evidence of a swift migration by entire villages of ...

Four Corners (comprising northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, southwestern Colorado ... called the Anasazi-”Ancient Ones”-or more exactly in the Navajo Indian language, ”Ancestors ...

At the Four Corners Governors Conference that coincided with Thursday`s summer solstice, as the sun struck strategically placed markings on the area`s famous Anasazi Indian ruins, talk revolved ...

April 30 - The extreme southwestern corner of the state lies in ruins. Archaeologists and anthropologists ... widely scattered remnants of an almost 1,800-year-old Indian civilization known as the ...

The Ancestral Puebloans — also known as the Anasazi — had no written ... a rancher from Mancos, Colorado, whose family became intrigued with ruins in the late 19th century when he saw the ...

Stephen Lekson of the University of Colorado said he and his team linked three southern New Mexico ruins to the Anasazi ... region about 1150. The Anasazi, a Navajo Indian word meaning ancient ...

American Indian ruins can be found throughout the desert Southwest in great variety, from Colorado's Mesa Verde ... the inhabitants — the Sinagua and Anasazi — constructed pueblos from ...

MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK, Colo. -- Thousands of blackened silhouettes of trees torched by last year's wildfires are presiding over this summer's regeneration. White sego lilies, yellow mule's ear ...

Within the past decade, however, archaeologists have wrung from the pristine ruins ... Anasazi themselves. “After about A.D. 1200, something very unpleasant happens,” says University of ...