"The Anasazi Mystery" essay deals with ability/inability to adapt to the environment

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The Anasazi Mystery Survival is something few people think about in modern times. This phenomenon adds both a new and unique chapter to human history. Native Americans, who lived in what is now called the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States, had a very different reality. Almost all labor and attention had to be focused on basic survival tasks such as gathering food and finding drinkable water. Throughout the vast majority of human …

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…on mineral and nutrient rich soil, water, weather, sun, temperature, as well as protection from insects and other creatures. In the Four Corners region, none of these variables can be predicted, and few can be circumvented. The Anasazi struggled against the inhospitable landscape and limited food resources of this area for two thousand years. Culture and tradition were shaped by this struggle, to an extent few contemporary North Americans can relate to or even imagine.