Video: Mystery of the Anasazi

Summary:

In the American southwest, there is no more puzzling mystery than the magnificent stone cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde. Why did the Anasazi Indians suddenly move their villages to these perilous cliffs in the 13th century…and then abandon them just decades later…and seemingly disappear from history? (1 Hour)

Was it drought? Invading tribes? Or an insidious cancer from within that may have caused them to turn to fierce warfare and even cannibalism?

In search of answers, Digging for the Truth’s Josh Bernstein travels from Mesa Verde, Colorado, to remote canyons in Utah where the Anasazi took refuge. Piecing together the story from both archaeologists and Native Americans, he finally tracks it down in the eerie and desolate ruins of the Anasazi’s greatest city: Chaco Canyon.