The Anasazi lived ... staggering here. Colorado state archaeologist Meg Van Ness said Montezuma County, with more than 12,000 recorded sites, in addition to those at Mesa Verde and Hovenweep, has by ...

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 ...

During our outings, we encountered ruins that we weren’t sure ... Marlar and his team did just that. At an Anasazi site in southwestern Colorado called CowboyWash, excavators found three pit ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Anasazi about ...

Relying on the archaeological record, scientists until recently spoke of the Anasazi ruins as having been "abandoned ... New Mexico, Colorado and Utah meet _ was one of the most densely settled ...

The Manitou Cliff Dwellings, Anasazi ruins dating back 800 to 1,000 years, consist of 40 rooms that were relocated from McElmo Canyon, near southwestern Colorado's Mesa Verde, in the early ...