Travel back 900 years to uncover the puzzling sophistication and technological genius of the Chaco Canyon inhabitants. How did this civilization build complex and comprehensive projects such as a network of roads connecting 70 outlying communities? Anthropologists believe the Chaco civilization was an ingenious technological society that subsequently collapsed because of the gradual depletion of its resource bases
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Title from title screen (viewed February 5, 2008)
Originally broadcast as an episode from the 1980 television series: Odyssey
Credits
Cinematographer, Peter Hoving ; animation, Salvatore Raciti ; editor, Ina Smith ; music, Steve Olenick