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House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest | Craig Childs
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The greatest "unsolved mystery" of the American Southwest is the fate of the Anasazi, the native peoples who in the eleventh century converged on Chaco Canyon (in today's southwestern New Mexico) and built what has been called the Las Vegas of its day, a flourishing cultural center that attracted pilgrims from far and wide, a vital crossroads of the prehistoric world. The Anasazis' accomplishments - in agriculture, in art, in commerce, in architecture, and in engineering - were astounding, rivaling those of the Mayans in distant Central America. By the thirteenth century, however, the Anasazi were gone from Chaco. Vanished. What was it that brought about the rapid collapse of their civilization? Was it drought? pestilence? war? forced migration? mass murder or suicide? For many years conflicting theories have abounded. Craig Childs draws on the latest scholarly research, as well as on a lifetime of adventure and exploration in the most forbidding landscapes of the American Southwest, to shed new light on this compelling mystery.
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charliemarlowe
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This is my current #audiobook listen. I really enjoyed his newest book, Atlas of a Lost World, so I thought I‘d like this one. I‘m only 10-15 percent in, but it‘s not quite the same. But it‘s early, and maybe my opinion will change.

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LordMunodi
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Although not an Archaeologist himself, Childs takes a unique and "macro" approach to studying the people we Anglos call the Anasazi. He literally walks carefully and respectfully in their footsteps. He confers with all manner of Archaeologists. He also writes well as he posits many likely theories on how these people lived and what eventually happened to them as they 'disappeared'.

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LordMunodi

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Although not an Archaeologist himself, Childs takes a unique and "macro" approach to studying the people we Anglos call the Anasazi. He literally walks carefully and respectfully in their footsteps. He confers with all manner of Archaeologists. He also writes well as he posits many likely theories on how these people lived and what eventually happened to them as they 'disappeared'.