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Their primary crops were corn, beans, and squash.
More About the Ancestral Puebloan People of Colorado's Mesa Verde Country
MESA VERDE COUNTRY The Heart of Archaeology in the Southwest
The earliest inhabitants of the area were nomadic peoples who lived in the area from at least 10,000 B.C., sustaining themselves by hunting game and gathering food plants.
Get a taste of what awaits you in print from this compelling excerpt. The looters had broken into the royal tomb in the ancient Andean capital of Wari, Peru, with picks and shovels, then dropped a rope into the stone-lined shaft.
Empires of the Sun Feature @ National Geographic Magazine
Anasazi - what happened
UNTIL very recently, the most perplexing mystery of Southwestern archeology -- what caused the collapse of the ancient empire of the Anasazi -- seemed all but solved.