2008 Anasazi Adventures Galleries

Mesa Verde : Mesa Verde National Park is a World Heritage Site. Ancient Anasazi created amazing buildings in their 700 year life in this region. The last stages are immortalized by Cliff Palace, Balcony House, and Square Tower House. Rangers lead tours, museums have dioramas, and one gets the cultural sense of how the Anasazi lived.

Mesa Verde

Mesa Verde National Park is a World Heritage Site. Ancient Anasazi ...

Updated: Feb 12, 2008 1:35pm PST

Canyons of the Ancients : Canyons of the Ancients Located below Mesa Verde in the southwestern edge of Colorado, Canyons of the Ancients was home to some 200,000 Anasazi over their 700 year history. Today, while not showing remarkable ruins like Mesa Verde, it provides significant archeological and anthropologcal data on how the Anasazi lived. Crow Canyon Archeological Center had surveyed, cataloged, and modeled this fascinating history.

Canyons of the Ancients

Canyons of the Ancients Located below Mesa Verde in the southwestern ...

Updated: Feb 12, 2008 1:41pm PST

Cedar Mesa : Cedar Mesa North of the San Juan River, Cedar Mesa is 'high lonesome' country in se Utah. It was intermittent home to Anasazi during several periods of their 700 year history. Cedar Mesa ruins are more natural, isolated, and give one the distinct sense "You might run into an Anasazi around the next corner...!" Each of these images was captured near Magic Hour using high dynamic range (HDR) techniques.

Cedar Mesa

Cedar Mesa North of the San Juan River, Cedar Mesa is 'high lonesome' ...

Updated: Feb 12, 2008 1:55pm PST

Chaco Canyon : Chaco Cultural National Historic Park ~ A World Heritage Site - is famous for ancient Anasazi Pueblos, the Sun Dagger on Fajada Butte, and an interpretation of Solar and Lunar influences on building orientations. We present some of the important pueblos. We enjoy shootin' moonrise; Chaco provides superb shots at various locales. The Solstice Project has carefully measured building walls, windows, and other features to provide an interpretation suggesting the equinox, solstices, and lunar standstills were interpreted by the Anasazi as markers for orientating their ancient, complex dwellings. We will talk about Solar and Lunar influences on orientations of pueblo design.

Chaco Canyon

Chaco Cultural National Historic Park ~ A World Heritage Site - i ...

Updated: Jul 02, 2007 12:48pm PST

Valles Caldera : The Jemez Mountains patiently built a massive volcano over several million years. Suddenly, it literally blew its top. Its rocks were found in a Chicago high rise basement digging; simulations indicate rocks and gas were blown over 50 miles into the air. Today, it is a National Preserve, where you can bask in nature and perhaps shoot gorgeous images of wild elk.

Valles Caldera

The Jemez Mountains patiently built a massive volcano over several mil ...

Updated: Jul 02, 2007 12:34pm PST

Ghost Ranch : Ghost Ranch is famous as a Learning Center. Ghost Ranch was also the home of Georgie O'Keeffe, well known recluse and impressionistic painter. Her work can be found at the Santa Fe Museum in her name. The Georgia O'Keeffe Landscape Tour, hosted by Ghost Ranch, is a fascinating drive onto private land. A DVD video compares some of O'Keeffes paintings with the landscapes she loved so dearly. Then a guided tour provides insight and photo ops along the fascinating cliff fronts near the Main Building of Ghost Ranch. Located in northern New Mexico, Ghost Ranch provides alluring vistas and majestic cliffs. Ghost Ranch is also home to the swift little meat-eating dinosaur, Coelophysis, a Late Triassic animal who died in a grand flood some 220 million years ago.

Ghost Ranch

Ghost Ranch is famous as a Learning Center. Ghost Ranch was also th ...

Updated: Jul 02, 2007 12:52pm PST

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