Science News, May 12th, 1990
Leaving the pits behind
The Anasazi Indians, who lived from about A.D. 450 to 1300 in what is now the southwestern United States, were a mobile people who occupied distinctive pit dwellings for a few as 10 or 15 years before moving on. Some researchers have suggested the inhabitants abandoned and sometimes burned these "pit structures" as a result of disease, natural disasters or warfare. But the Anasazi may often have moved because of deterioration and insect infestation in their sunken quarters, or as a ritual response to a pit inhabitant's death, asserts Catherine M. Cameron of the Unive...
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