Around 1500 B.C., the Anasazi, ancestors of the Pueblo Native Americans, thrived in the Four Corners region. They built intricate pueblos and were skilled in pottery, basket-making, and rock art.

Anasazi from Mesa Verde obviously had conquered Chaco or at least remodeled it, Matlock said. Their brand of architecture was superimposed over the Chacoan remains. For years archaeologists argued ...

These people were Ancestral Puebloan, Hisatsinom, and Anasazi. And they were none of these. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Anasazi: What’s in a name? .

Newly discovered evidence is shedding light on the movements of the Anasazi, a group of agricultural people who farmed the arid section of the Southwest from roughly AD 1 to AD 1300.

The Anasazi settlements stand as grand, ... the Anasazi (or Ancient Puebloans, as they are increasingly called) were presumably complex beings with the ability to make decisions, ...

The Fremont are identified as separate from the ancestral Puebloans or Anasazi. They occupy the land directly north of ancestral Puebloan land—most of Utah north of the Colorado River, ...

The exodus of the Ancestral Puebloans has baffled scientists for years after they vanished without a trace from Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park in the 13th ... also known as the Anasazi ...