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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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Anasazi Collapse and Modern Income Inequality
The Anasazi, and most other cultures that collapsed, did so for a combination of reasons: climate change (drought), human-caused environmental degradation, overpopulation, new religious fervor, and,...
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Pagosa 2015 Snapshots and Notes
Welcome to Pagosa Springs, Colorado! Ah, Pagosa Springs, Colorado. I’ve been in love with this place since driving through with my parents on a family vacation in high school. At first, the attraction...
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Memoir of a Rookie Anasazi Potter
Memoir of a Rookie Anasazi Potter A few summers ago, I had the incredible experience of a three-day Anasazi pottery workshop taught by Gregory S. Wood, ArchæoCeramist, at Chimney Rock National Monument...
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Anasazi North Towns: Aztec and Salmon
In the late 1000s, two huge Anasazi north towns popped up along the San Juan and Animas rivers. Why? Answers abound, both factual and fanciful about why the the central focus of Anasazi life moved...
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Chaco Canyon Peñasco Blanco Trail: Double Anasazi Payoff
A Double Anasazi Payoff: Chaco Canyon’s Peñasco Blanco Trail Peñasco Blanco is the westernmost Anasazi great house ruin in Chaco Canyon National Historic Park, New Mexico. I highly recommend...
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What I Learned About Animal Time Solo Hiking 3,000 Miles
Animal Time vs. Human Time On the third day, seconds and minutes and hours are meaningless. On the fifth day, now is the only moment, and time is marked by a soft droning hum like the subliminal base...
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Anasazi Runners and the Two-Hour Marathon
The Tarahumara: Modern-Day Anasazi Runners? In the high Sierra Madre Occidental mountains of northwestern Mexico live a tribe descended from the Mogollon People, neighbors of the Anasazi. Today they...
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