At New Mexico`s Chaco Culture National Historic Park, visitors who enter the magnificent Casa Rinconada kiva, or ceremonial chamber, see it very much as the Anasazi did long ago.

The typical Anasazi village had several dwellings, storage rooms and a single kiva, and that was the case here.

These people were Ancestral Puebloan, Hisatsinom, and Anasazi. And they were none of these. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Anasazi: What’s in a name?.

The word 'Kiva' refers to an Anasazi underground dwelling. With Masonry walls and sparsely decorated, the Kiva's were used for daily as well as special rituals by the Anasazi people.

New computer simulations of the changing environmental conditions around one of the Anasazi cultural centers in the first part of the last millennium suggest that drought wasn't the only factor ...