Description
In this landmark work on the Anasazi tribes of the Southwest, naturalist Craig Childs dives head on into the mysteries of this vanished people.
The more than a few tribes that made up the Anasazi people converged on Chaco Canyon (New Mexico) all through the 11th century to create a civilization hailed as “the Las Vegas of its day,” a flourishing cultural center that attracted pilgrims from in all places, and a vital crossroads of the prehistoric world. By the 13th century, alternatively, Chaco’s vibrant community had disappeared without a trace.
Was once it drought? Pestilence? War? Forced migration, mass murder or suicide? Conflicting theories have abounded for years, capturing the North American imagination for eons.
Join Craig Childs as he draws on the recent scholarly research, in addition to a lifetime of exploration in the forbidden landscapes of the American Southwest, to shed new light on this compelling mystery. He takes us from Chaco Canyon to the highlands of Mesa Verde, to the Mongollon Rim; to a up to date Zuni community where tribal elders take care of silence about the fate of their Lost Others; and to the in large part unexplored foothills of the Sierra Madre in Mexico, where abundant remnants of Anasazi culture lie yet to be uncovered.