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The Chaco Anasazi emerged in the northern U.S. Southwest around approximately A.D. 900 from earlier Anasazi roots. They subsequently developed a fascinating culture that appears to have been focused on Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico. Featuring lengthy roadways, impressive monumental architecture, astronomical observatories, and a far-ranging exchange system, the Chaco Anasazi continued to develop until approximately A.D. 1150, at which point their distinctive culture disappeared. Researchers interested in the Chaco Anasazi are attempting to answer questions ranging from the origins of this tradition to the reasons for its downfall. View and contribute to a growing list of online academic papers that focus on the prehistory of the Anasazi.

Chetro Ketl Great Kiva This site presents a three-dimensional reconstruction of a Great Kiva, an architectural feature found in many prehistoric Anasazi communities in the Southwestern United States. This particular model was created using archaeological records from the excavated Chetro Ketl Great Kiva, which is located in Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico. The model, which contains over 1,000 objects, mostly in the roofing, was created using Metacreations Infini-D on a Mac platform and took about three years of very sporadic work to assemble.

Explore a Chaco Anasazi "great house," a large above-ground masonry structure that likely served an important social and political function in the community in which it is found.

1000 A.D. - Leif Ericson, a Viking seaman, explores the east coast of North America and sights Newfoundland, establishing a short-lived settlement there.

Sinagua (1100 A. D. to 1400 A. D.) The Sinagua are the best known regional group of a tradition anthropologists refer to as the Western Anasazi. The Sinagua occupied an area between Flagstaff and Phoenix, Arizona between 500 and 1300 AD. They led a simple life based on corn farming and subsistence hunting and gathering at the periphery of the three major Southwest cultures