Chaco Canyon was once the vibrant religious center of a Native American culture whose collapse long remained a mystery—until ...

Relative to Pueblo Bonito’s size, few graveyards or substantial trash deposits have been found. The ancestral Puebloans of ...

That site is Chaco Canyon, a region of the southwestern United States that was home to ancestral Pueblo peoples from about 850 to 1150 A.D. Over his long career as an archaeologist, Lekson has argued ...