For instance, Payment says the Cliff Dwellings’ use of the term “Anasazi” has been deemed offensive by many Indigenous people. White archeologists adopted the term — which means “ancient ...

The Anasazi, a Navajo word meaning ancient ones, moved farther south than previously thought, and they abandoned their cliff dwellings in the Four Corners region much faster than originally ...

The materials used to build the Manitou Cliff Dwellings are remnants of Anasazi ruins that were originally tucked into a canyon near Dolores in southwestern Colorado, dating back to up to 1,000 ...

Dec. 31, 2000 - FOUR CORNERS - Durango archaeologist Gary Matlock was a "conflict and violence man" long before it was popular and before most academics found it acceptable to discuss bloodshed and ...

High above us, on a ledge “defended by 60 feet of relentlessly overhanging cliff,” beckoned Eagle Nest House, a small Anasazi pueblo that no one had lived in for seven centuries.

A new species of dinosaur has emerged from the rocks of southern Utah. Buried by a collapsing sand dune, perhaps 185 million years ago, the new dino was probably a plant eater and an early ...

As she looked down at the Anasazi cliff dwellings in Arizona's Canyon de Chelly, McCarthy wrote, "the cliff appeared to be looking back, almost as if the 'ancient ones' had become the cliff itself." ...

The discovery of the new plant-eating dinosaur was just below an ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) cliff-dwelling called Eagles Nest in the in the Comb Ridge area near Bluff, Utah.

The modern traveler is blessed with more options. Say you want to get from the ancient Anasazi cliff dwellings at Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico to the woolly mammoth museum in Hot ...