December 28, 2004 |
Editor's note: Wild West columnist Christopher Reynolds is spending the first week of his holiday ankle deep in cold Mississippi mud. He'll return on Jan. 11. Today's columnist, Craig Childs, is the author of four books on the Southwest, the most recent being "The Way Out: A True Story of Ruin and Survival." Childs lives in Crawford, Colo., at the foot of the West Elk range and the staging point for his numerous forays into Anasazi country.
January 22, 2008 |
SAN DIEGO -- We're far from any sea or any tranquillity in Howard Korder's "Sea of Tranquility," running through Feb. 10 at the Old Globe Theatre. Seen Saturday, this turbulent, two-act, 14-character psychodrama asks provocative questions about our ability to change for the better or escape the past even by running away and starting over. The very first line ("How was Hanukkah?"
May 20, 2001 |
The Semai people of Malaysia never fight. Whenever two tribe members have a conflict, it is resolved with words--lots of them. The village leader calls a meeting to discuss the dispute. Anyone with an opinion can speak up. And they do. The meetings can last for days. When the talking finally stops, the village leader makes a ruling. Then he orders everyone present never to speak of the dispute again, and that is the end of it.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 17, 1999
The June 11 article about Christy Turner's "Man Corn" thesis that the Anasazi were either cannibalized by the Toltec or were cannibals themselves is bound to disturb or otherwise stir up a lot of people. It should be remembered that this is an academic thesis, and even though such theses purportedly deal with knowledge, they are also dealings in the high-stakes game of "Remember, you heard it here first!" Morality doesn't enter into the interpretation of data, especially when it concerns a dead civilization.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 19, 2000 |
Newly discovered evidence is shedding light on the movements of the Anasazi, a group of agricultural people who farmed the arid section of the Southwest from roughly AD 1 to AD 1300. Researcher Stephen Lekson of the University of Colorado said he and his team linked three southern New Mexico ruins to the Anasazi and found evidence of a swift migration by entire villages of Anasazi around the year 1300. Research indicates a major drought began in the region about 1150.
February 15, 1998 |
The Archaeological Conservancy is offering a San Juan River adventure through the heartland of the Anasazi world to see ancient cliff dwellings and rock art panels. The tour, June 20 to 27, will be spent rafting the "goosenecks" stretch of the San Juan River, with its unusual geological formations and occasional rapids, from Bluff to Lake Powell in southeastern Utah.