This provides access to many natural geographic points of interest as well as some remnants of the Anasazi culture.
His stated goals were to search for Abajo pottery, study the newly discovered Mogollon culture and the relationship between it and the Anasazi cultures.
This Anasazi culture reached full flower 1,000 years ago at Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico.
The Anasazi culture flourished in the region currently known as the Four Corners.
In the end, the agriculture-dependent Anasazi culture has to migrate out of the region.
It was adjacent to, roughly contemporaneous with, but distinctly different from the Anasazi culture.
Also protected are areas of historic or cultural significance, such as the pueblos of the Anasazi culture.
Evidence of cannibalism has been found in ruins associated with the Anasazi culture of the Southwestern United States as well.
We went on a few digs in a Southwestern Anthro class, but the Anasazi culture wasn't my thing.
But--even given the intense interest of anthropologists in the Anasazi culture and its mysterious fate--it didn't seem very important.