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Cliff Palace October 16, 2008 |
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It is not clear what actually happened. But before about 800 years ago, the Anasazi
inhabited the tops of the mesas, where the fields were, and there were numerous
such settlement enclaves throughout the region, the largest of which was in Chaco Canyon.
After a long wet period of good agricultural yields and population growth, the "Golden Era" (Pueblo II: 900CE - 1130CE), a long period of relative drought set in. |
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