Over the last five years, European visitors have flocked to the American Southwest in such numbers that attendance has doubled at many of the region`s national parks and monuments. Four Corners ...

THEY lived on the edge of the world, in the red mountains of the desert Southwest, in houses with T-shaped doorways tuned to arcane celestial events. They fashioned elaborate pottery, grew corn and ...

Dec. 31, 2000 - FOUR CORNERS - Durango archaeologist Gary Matlock was a "conflict and violence man" long before it was popular and before most academics found it acceptable to discuss bloodshed and ...

I am practically a native of the Southwest, but it wasn`t until recent years that I acquired my liking for the stark, seemingly colorless landscape of the Four Corners area. So I was shocked the first ...

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The early Anasazi -- On top of the mesa -- Life among the Anasazi -- Moving to the cliffs -- Mysteries and discoveries -- Conclusion Summary Discusses the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde, Colorado, and ...

More than 20 years ago, when I was teaching on the Navajo reservation in the northeast corner of Arizona, I climbed up an escarpment to see ancient figurative drawings in a niche in a cliff. These ...

Analysis of some of the architectural timbers in ancient dwellings of the American Southwest has shown from which distant forests the massive logs came. This information could shed new light on trade ...

Exhilarating Santa Fe, New Mexico is a high-desert town in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, beloved equally for its art and architecture. Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi, just a block off ...

The severe drought in California and much of the West is a reminder that civilized life is a paper-thin veneer that overlays the deep upheavals of nature. Humans carry on blithely, holding fast to the ...