Even in prehistoric times pottery decoration was an intellectual art. The women of the ancient western Anasazi were the experts, and their work is displayed right here on campus. 'Rise up from ...

Commentator Craig Childs is author of a new book that tries to solve the mystery of the disappearance of the Anasazi Indians, who once lived in what is now the Southwestern United States. For 1,000 ...

Regular viewers of Antiques Roadshow recognize Native American pottery as an item that often brings large estimates. Despite this, it’s not a frequent item sent to the column, so we were more than a ...

Though the dogma may be irrecoverable, Dr. Glowacki argues that it rapidly attracted adherents. ... Excavations indicate that the population burgeoned along with the new architecture. An influx of ...

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 ...

It's not every girl that gets to train beneath one of the most discussed jewelry designers in New York City, but that's precisely what happened to Kathryn Bentley upon earning an apprenticeship with ...

Vol. 85, No. 4, Special Issue: New Findings from the Far Western Pueblo Region: Papers in Honor of Margaret Lyneis (DECEMBER 2019), pp. 289-312 (24 pages) Published By: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. At the ...

In about A.D. 1300 the Anasazi people abandoned Long House Valley. To this day the valley, though beautiful in its way, seems touched by desolation. It runs eight miles more or less north to south, on ...

Near the end of the Underground Adventure exhibit at the Field Museum is a small display case with a few Native American artifacts collected in New Mexico in 1950–corncobs, squash seeds, a turkey foot ...

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, an ...

Remote and with limited access, Cross Canyon is one of the most intriguing areas in the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument. There are no established trails along its 20-plus-miles length, and ...