Opinion: A lost civilization reminds us to share the wealth and vote while we still can
After generations of Chacoans had painstakingly built the elaborate settlement that became the cultural and economic center of the people living in what’s now New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Colorado, suddenly it was abandoned. Obviously, no one survives to explain why, but theories abound. … Drought followed around 1100 and competition for scarce resources was rampant and brutal, leading to political and social upheaval. Mass graves reveal skeletons with clear evidence of blunt-force trauma, mutilation and burning of bodies.
-Written by Diane Carman, a Denver communications consultant.