What really happened to the Anasazi; The Crisis of the Thirteenth Century The Anasazi are ancestors of the present- day Pueblo, Zuni, and Hopi tribes of New Mexico and Arizona. The Anasazi fished, hunted small game, and gathered wild foods. They eventually started to build elaborate structures called cliff dwellings, moving away from the subterranean pit houses. They used a sophisticated irrigation system to support their civilization. Using dams and dikes, contoured terraces, and reservoirs, …showed first 75 words of 1362 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1362 total…evidence of the Anasazi tribe lies in the scattered structures in the American Midwest. Cliff dwellings and other structural ruins can still be seen in Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chilly, Pueblo Bonito, and Mesa Verde in the four-corner region of Midwest. This mystery may never be completely solved, but the cannibalism theory brings the scientific world one step closer to a more complete and reasonable explanation on the disappearance of the Anasazi from the Midwest.