Includes bibliographical references.

At its pinnacle in A.D. 1150, the Anasazi empire was vast and sophisticated, unequaled until the arrival of the Europeans--and then they simply disappeared.Dr. Maureen Cole, one of the world's foremost physical anthropologists, is called in to examine and evaluate a mass grave discovered in New Mexico. The burial site contains nothing but the shattered skulls of women and children. As Dr. Cole works to unravel the mystery of these deaths, strange things begin to happen around her. The walls of her laboratory crumble, her generator quits, and she begins to hear whispering voices emanating from the plastic bags of bones....The Visitant is the first book in the Anasazi Mysteries series.