Museums

Many of the sites mentioned above have a museum incorporated into their Visitor's Center. There are several additional museums in the area that have good collections of pottery and other artifacts excavated from the various ruin sites:

Arizona State Museum, Tuscon, AZ [NPE]
Museum of Anthropology, Eastern Arizona College, Thatcher, AZ [NPE]
Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ
Phoenix Museum of History, Phoenix, AZ [NPE]
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Albuquerque, NM [NPE]
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Albuquerque, NM
Western New Mexico University Museum, Silver City, NM [NPE]

For More Information

There are several good books on Anasazi culture and on the ruins themselves. Ones I've used in preparing this article are:

Ferguson, William M. and Arthur H. Rohn, Anasazi Ruins of the Southwest in Color, University of New Mexico Press, 5th paperback printing 1991, 296pp., ISBN 0-8263-0874-0, $29.95.

Noble, David G., Ancient Ruins of the Southwest: An Archaeological Guide, Northland Press, Flagstaff AZ. 218pp. ISBN 0-87358-530-5, The 1991 paperback edition is $14.95.

World Wide Web URLs:

Mesa Verde Museum Association Electronic Bookstore
Greg Bondar's Archaeological Sites of the Southwest
SouthWestern Archaeology Home Page
Great Outdoor Recreation Pages (GORP) Archaeology Page
Max Bertola's Southern Utah - pictures
Ron Mozer's Indian Ruins Web site - more pictures
Bret Harte Junior High School (Oakland, Ca) Anasazi page
William H. Calvin has several on-line books with chapters on Anasazi astronomical and measurement techniques. See How the Shaman Stole the Moon (includes info on Chaco Canyon, Hovenweap, Navajo National Monument) and Leapfrogging Gnomons (includes info on the Aztec Ruins - Chaco Canyon - Casas Grandes north-south alignment). (His book The River That Flows Uphill is about a 2-week rafting trip through the Grand Canyon and also includes some information on Anasazi ruins/petroglyphs down in Grand Canyon.)