Vonarx, Richard Lange, Charles Adams, Daniela Triadan, Chuck Riggs, Stephanie Whittlesey, Jeff Reid, Patty Crown, Mike Jacobs, Tammy Stone, Lex Lindsay, Jeff Clark, Patrick Lyons, Anna Neuzil, Bill Hartmann, Paul Fish, Ryan Howell, Todd and Chris VanPool, and Beth Bagwell. I am most grateful to Wolcott Toll, David Wilcox, Gwinn Vivian, Kim Malville, Rich Friedman, John Stein, Tom Windes, Dean Wilson, Kathy Roler Durand, Wendy Bustard, Gary Brown, Larry Baker, Paul Reed, Ron Sutcliffe, Scott Ortman, Donna Glowacki, Susan Ryan, Joel Brisbin, Kate Niles, Larry Nordby, Carla Van West, Dave Breternitz, Eric Hansen, Hugh Robinson, Catherine Cameron, Winston Hurst, Joe Pachak, Jonathan Till, Owen Severence, Nieves Zedeño, Kelley Hays-Gilpin, Bruce Anderson, Mike Yeatts, T. Archaeologists and scholars throughout the Southwest proved most willing and thoughtful during my research, opening themselves to my inquiries and freely sharing their expertise.
Thank you for generously sharing conversations, letters, and time. I would not have been able to get my bearings in Southwest prehistory without the assistance of Mark Varien, Steve Lekson, Barbara Mills, and Jeff Dean. Craig Childs draws on the latest scholarly research, as well as on a lifetime of adventure and exploration in the most forbidding landscapes of the American Southwest, to shed new light on this compelling mystery. What was it that brought about the rapid collapse of their civilization? Was it drought? pestilence? war? forced migration? mass murder or suicide? For many years conflicting theories have abounded. The Anasazis' accomplishments - in agriculture, in art, in commerce, in architecture, and in engineering - were astounding, rivaling those of the Mayans in distant Central America.īy the thirteenth century, however, the Anasazi were gone from Chaco. The greatest "unsolved mystery" of the American Southwest is the fate of the Anasazi, the native peoples who in the eleventh century converged on Chaco Canyon (in today's southwestern New Mexico) and built what has been called the Las Vegas of its day, a flourishing cultural center that attracted pilgrims from far and wide, a vital crossroads of the prehistoric world. A "beautifully written travelogue" that draws on the latest scholarly research as well as a lifetime of exploration to light on the extraordinary Anasazi culture of the American Southwest ( Entertainment Weekly).
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