The Central Florida Society of the AIA & the UCF Department of Anthropology Present Dr. Stephen Lekson from the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History.

Chaco Canyon, in the bleak deserts of northwestern New Mexico, is an unlikely setting for a regional center and capital. But so it was in the 11th and 12th centuries A.D. Chaco's ruins captured public and scientific attention in the late 1800s and has ever since remained a "mystery" - Why there? What were its "Great Houses"? Why did it fall?

Dr. Lekson presents information from recent excavations at Chimney Rock, a Chaco "outlier" and a new understanding that may to some extent "solve" the mystery. Read More