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A 16 page paper discussing the history and fate of the Anasazi, ancestors of the Pueblos occupying the American Southwest for a period of time measured in thousands of years. The Anasazi disappeared abruptly, however, in the 13th century. Investigation points to drought, but some researchers believe that the Anasazi committed environmental missteps that eventually led to their demise. The paper traces some of the early cultural changes, discusses the water cycle and presents results of research focusing on and Anasazi. Bibliography lists 17 sources.
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16 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSanasazi.rtf
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John Muir traveled through Nevada on his journey west, and is credited with labeling that part of the American Southwest as the "great
wasteland ... irredeemable now and forever" (Christensen, 2003) a comment that still incites the ire of residents today. Muirs preference of landscape can be determined by comparing his comment
about the Great Basin to the fact that many of Californias most treasured giant redwoods grow undisturbed and unthreatened in Muir Forest north of San Francisco.
Desertification is a current ecological and climatological concern in many regions of the world. Some is manmade, some is the result of natural processes. The
latter is the case in the drying of the Great Basin of the Southwestern United States. In times of prehistory, much of the region was far more hospitable that
is todays environment that gains characterization as the "great wasteland," but may have ceased to be, leading to the disappearance of the Anasazi of the Great Basin. Natural History of
the Great Basin The Great Basin encompasses much of the American Southwest, consisting of a "harsh expanse of dry desert and high mountains
between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada ... The landscape is more than half empty" (Christensen, 2003). Technically, however, the Great Basin drains - when there is something
to drain - roughly 200,000 square miles, one-fifth of the West, where creeks and rivers flow inland to terminal lakes, marshes, salt flats and sinks, rather than to the sea
(Christensen, 2003). There is a larger Basin and Range province of the earth of which the Great Basin is a geological part.
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