Canyonlands (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alan Robert Schroedl. Polly Schaafsma. Betsy L. Tipps. Phil R. Geib. Jim Blazik.

For over a hundred years, Americans have been intrigued by the ancient remains of human art, activities, and settlements in the Greater Southwest. By the turn of the century archaeologists knew that the haunting cliff dwellings were left by the Anasazi farmers who lived in the region 700 to 900 years ago. But it was only in the 1930’s and 1940’s that archaeologists discovered evidence of the first people in the southwest. Although these people lived for over 6000 years in the Canyonlands...