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Vanished: A Pueblo Mystery
nytimes.com — Perched on a lonesome bluff above the dusty San Pedro River, about 30 miles east of Tucson, the ancient stone ruin archaeologists call the Davis Ranch Site doesn ’t seem to fit in. Staring back from the opposite bank, the tumbled walls of Reeve Ruin are just as surprising.
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- MississippiLife, on 04/10/2008, -3/+3This is a very interesting article on this mystery.
- jmpeagle, on 04/10/2008, -13/+2front page after 2 days and one comments and only 35 diggs?
- calgone, on 04/10/2008, -1/+6I'm so sick of people complaining about the number of diggs/comments of stories that hit the front page. There's so many other things that go into the algorithm beyond number of diggs and comments. Deal with it.
- ChzPlz, on 04/10/2008, -1/+5For ***** sake these comments piss me off.
- CryRightardCry, on 04/11/2008, -0/+1Retard.
- y0y0howsdajell0, on 04/10/2008, -4/+3Oh dear God. Another postmodern explanation for something that we have evidence for. Ideology? Give me a break. Ideology is defined by modes of production, and these people were fine. Go find some hard evidence as to why they left and not some "ideological" or mentalistic explanation.
- Hodr, on 04/10/2008, -0/+3Have lived only 20 miles from this place for years, never even knew it existed (although, I have yet to make it to any of the caversn nor the Grand Canyon yet either).
- jcaino, on 04/10/2008, -1/+4Don't leave mom's basement much?
- abuelos84, on 04/10/2008, -0/+1oh, you're so clever!
- jcaino, on 04/10/2008, -1/+4Don't leave mom's basement much?
- rholland356, on 04/10/2008, -2/+1They left because of drought that lasted several generations or more.
Those droughts are actually the norm and are coming back, by the way. The rare wet era we live in has ended. You will move to elsewhere soon. - IdeasFromCathy, on 04/10/2008, -1/+1This is a beautiful area of the country. Can you imagine your task as and archaeologist, if New Orleans had been abandoned after hurricane Katrina; trying to decide what happened there several hundred years later...with no media reports, just the remains of what was left.
- hawk0168, on 04/10/2008, -2/+2Multiple factors as to why they left. Dry area. Irrigation. Long term irrigation use causes salinization of soil. Long term soil use on marginal lands causes nutrient depletion.
I didn't read the article, but since I've studied this disappearance in classes I thought I might use some knowledge for once. - designerutah, on 04/10/2008, -0/+2Have to wonder if during the drought, the water sources that people used somehow became contaminated? Or was there something like warefare that made them move? Invaders?
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