The Ancient Ones: The Anasazi Civil War
This episode of the American Southwest Podcast is the 6th in the series about the original Native American inhabitants of the region and specifically about the Anasazi / Ancestral Puebloan Civil War that rocked the Four Corners area during the Chaco Aztec collapse in the 1200s that led to the eventual abandonment of the entire region. There's lots of gore, cannibalism, explorers, Mesa Verde, Migrations, Navajo stories, and more!
Video of me at Anasazi Ancestral Puebloan Ruins on Navajo Land in Utah
Video of me at Anasazi Ancestral Puebloan Ruins on Cedar Mesa
Video of me at Canyons of the Ancients
Video of me and Sleeping Ute Mountain and Ruins at Canyons of the Ancients
Selected Sources:
The Archaeology of Yellow Jacket Pueblo: Excavations at a Large Community Center in Southwestern Colorado Edited by Kristin A. Kuckelman. The Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
Anasazi Mummified Some of Their Dead, Anthropologist Contends by Lee Siegel on April 5, 1998
Cannibals of the Canyon by Douglas Preston, The New Yorker, November 30, 1998
Prehistoric Warfare in the American Southwest by Steven A Leblanc
The Lost world of the Old Ones by David Roberts
In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest by David Roberts
Behind the Bears Ears: Exploring the Cultural and Natural Histories of a Sacred Landscape
Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest by Stephen Plog
A Study of Southwestern Archaeology by Stephen Lekson
Tracing Time: Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau by Craig Childs
House of Rain: Tracing a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest by Craig Childs