Chaco Canyon, a site that was once central to the lives of precolonial peoples called Anasazi, may not have been able to produce enough food to sustain thousands of residents, according to new ...

Strontium isotopes have been used to identify the sources of timber in buildings around one thousand years old. The method can now help to solve a range of other problems. You have full access to this ...

Analysis of some of the architectural timbers in ancient dwellings of the American Southwest has shown from which distant forests the massive logs came. This information could shed new light on trade ...

Pollen analysis of woodrat (Neotoma) middens indicates that the local vegetation at Chaco Canyon and the regional vegetation of the San Juan Basin, northwestern New Mexico, have been shrub grassland ...

A basic requirement in all human activity concerned with architectural planning and construction is measurement. This paper is addressed to this topic within one specific Pre-Columbian culture—the ...

The San Juan Basin in northwestern New Mexico can be a forbidding place. There are year-round rivers in the north, but in the central area, you don’t want to be on foot with no water and no friends ...

BLUFF, Utah — Darkness was falling like a starry curtain as I pulled into this dusty town along the San Juan River. It was mid-November, and a cold wind was blowing in from the desert. The lights of a ...

Chaco Canyon, a site that was once central to the lives of precolonial peoples called Anasazi, may not have been able to produce enough food to sustain its estimated population numbers. Chaco Canyon, ...