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Chaco Canyon as it appears today. The view is looking east over Pueblo
Bonito Ruin (foreground). Chaco Wash, mostly dry throughout the year, runs
from the lower right to the upper center of the picture. Modern roads scar
the landscape. Just right of center near the distant horizon, is a small
bump, known as Fajada Butte, where a solar and calandar, known as the Sun
Daggar, was recently rediscovered. The villages of Chaco Canyon where mysteriously
abandoned by the Anasazi People around 1250 A.D. and the valley remained
silent until the arrival of the Navaho Indians (Athabaskans from Canada)
just prior to the Spanish Conquest in the 16th Century.
Aerial Photograph by Paul Logsdon
