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Article: The cliff-dwellers: the Four Corners region of southwestern USA is littered with the remains of the ancestral Puebloan people and their antecedents, who inhabited the region for more than 10,000 years before mysteriously migrating south. But, as Geordie Torr discovers, this unique archaeological legacy is under threat.
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- Geographical
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- May 1, 2008
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When we think about archaeology and the Americas, our thoughts rarely get past the big three southern civilisations: the Incas, Aztecs and Maya. And that's hardly surprising, given their incredibly impressive architectural legacy: from Macchu Picch u to Tikal and Chichen Itza.
But North America has an even longer history of colonisation, and in the Four Corners region of the southwestern USA, where the states of Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico come together, there is a veritable treasure trove of archaeological sites. The best known are, of course, the remarkable cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde and Chaco Canyon, but this ...