Why would the Anasazi leave — potentially for good — pueblos it had taken them decades to construct? Scientists have found one possible answer by looking at tree rings (a study called dendrochronology) in the Sand Canyon area. In the period between A.D. 1125 and 1180, very little rain fell in the region. After 1180, rainfall briefly returned to normal. From 1270 to 1274 there was another long drought, followed by another period of normal rainfall. In 1275, yet another drought began. This one lasted 14 years.
What happened? Warfare and starvation, leading to cannibalism (controversial). People were eating mice whole; evidence of cannibalism resulting from murders during war (unburied bodies, skulls with cut marks caused by scalping, skeletons were arrowheads inside the body cavity, proliferation of defensive walls, bones with smooth ends—hallmark of boiling in pots—bones cracked to extract marrow—residues of the human muscle protein myoglobin on the pots’ insides, dried human feces containing human muscle protein, normally absent from human feces)
Drought: AD 1130. Sometime between AD 1150 and 1200, Chaco Canyon was abandoned and remained empty until Navajo sheepherders reoccupied it 600 years later.
According to climate experts, your SUV caused this cannibalism.
Their disappearance no doubt resulted from the racial profiling of savages. They weren’t savages, they were sweet, innocent boys, minding their own business, no different than my son or yours.