Includes bibliographical references (page 45) and index.
House with 800 rooms -- Clues in the floors, walls, and rafters -- Population puzzle -- Mysterious superhighways -- Interview with R. Gwinn Vivian -- Glossary -- Further reading -- Chaco Canyon and related sites -- Index.
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Relates the nineteenth-century discovery of cliff dwellings in the Chaco Canyon of northwest New Mexico, the excavations of the ancient ruins, and what the artifacts reveal about the civilization of the ancient Pueblo Indians.
Chaco culture-- New Mexico-- Chaco Canyon, Juvenile literature.
Cliff-dwellings-- New Mexico-- Chaco Canyon, Juvenile literature.
Excavations (Archaeology)-- New Mexico-- Chaco Canyon, Juvenile literature.
Cliff dwellings-- New Mexico-- Chaco Canyon.
Indians of North America-- New Mexico-- Antiquities.