The Ancient Ones: Spiral Migration or The Anasazi Art of Vanishing Into Thin Air

This episode of the American Southwest Podcast is the 7th in the series about the original Native American inhabitants of the region and specifically about the migration of the Anasazi from the Four Corners region after the Anasazi Civil War down the Chaco Meridian to Northern Mexico and beyond. It discusses their interactions with the local Sinagua, Mogollon, Salado, Hohokam, and Paquime peoples they come into contact with and the destruction of burned pueblos, corn, and humans that they leave in their wake. It also discusses the possible origins of the Anasazi and the possible final iterations of that mysterious group of people after the Spanish arrive.

Selected Sources:

In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest by David Roberts

The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest by David Roberts

Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest by Stephen Plog

A Study of Southwestern Archaeology by Stephen Lekson

House of Rain: Tracing a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest by Craig Childs

Secrets of the Tarahumara by Christopher McDougall

https://indigenousmexico.org/sinaloa/the-original-indigenous-people-of-sinaloa/

https://www.centerforconsciouseldering.com/2015/05/04/art-pilgrimage-meeting-ancient-wisdom-copper-canyon/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/spiral-mass-grave-mesoamerican-mexico-city.amp

https://lugares.inah.gob.mx/en/museos-inah/museo/opinion/13653-rasgos-distintivos-de-plazuelas-13653.html?lugar_id=1723

http://westerndigs.org/new-evidence-reveals-violent-final-days-at-arizonas-montezuma-castle/

https://www.crowcanyon.org/educationproducts/peoples_mesa_verde/post_pueblo_navajo_name.asp

https://www.desertusa.com/desert-people/paquime.html

http://westerndigs.org/earliest-use-of-chocolate-in-america-discovered-suggesting-ancient-immigrants/