House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest Monument Valley poster you’ll know where in the

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By the thirteenth century

that encompasses eastern Utah

House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest Monument Valley poster you’ll know where in theThe 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,