The sites, from mesa-top pithouses and multistoried dwellings to cliffside villages, document the changes in the lives of a ...

'Calendar' rock carvings from Ancestral Pueblo discovered. The carvings were found at a site called Castle Rock Pueblo on the ...

Pompeii, Machu Picchu, and Petra are alluring, ghostly places, cities that rose through mankind’s endeavor and ingenuity before being abandoned to the omnipotent hands of nature. Nestled on a ...

A hundred years ago, the Lost City was uncovered in lower Moapa Valley in one of the area’s most significant archaeological discoveries. For more than a thousand years—1 CE to 1250 CE—the Ancestral ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Tourists view Pueblo Bonito, one of a series of Puebloan structures in Chaco Canyon WASHINGTON (Reuters) - DNA ...

They built massive cliffside dwellings, shaped the Southwest with art and architecture—and then, without warning, vanished.

Is demise of the ancients a caution to today’s world? Two professionals from different fields but with similar interests say the fate of the ancient inhabitants of the Four Corners foreshadows what ...

Introduction : what is color? / by Marit K. Munson -- Color in the Pueblo world / by Marit K. Munson -- Pigments and paints in the archaeological record / by Marit K. Munson -- The colors of Ancestral ...

In the refrain of her song, “Woodstock,” Joni Mitchell urged us to get ourselves back to the garden, a metaphor for a retreat from modern life and a return to spiritual connection with the land. For ...

USF geosciences professor Bogdan Onac is pictured with ice deposit in New Mexico. Credit: University of South Florida For more than 10,000 years, the people who lived on the arid landscape of ...