
Anasazi, the Navajos' name for the "Ancient Ones" who preceded them into the Southwest, is the nickname of Richard Wetherill, who devoted his life to a search for remains of these vanished peoples. He discovered the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde and Kiet Siel and the Basket...




Richard Wetherill: Anasazi is a book written by Frank McNitt that tells the story of Richard Wetherill, a pioneer in the field of archaeology who discovered the Ancestral Puebloan ruins in the American Southwest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The book provides a detailed...