Around A.D. 1250, seeking refuge from some unknown threat, the Anasazi migrated from open villages to nearly inaccessible dwellings. A generation later, they moved again. Douglas Merriam In 1874 ...

Remarkably preserved, the cliff dwellings cluster in canyons that slice ... in the lives of a prehistoric people once dubbed the Anasazi. They are now more accurately called the ancestral ...