In the reading passage we find that it was more likely that about 1130 A.D. the Anasazi, a goup of highly inteligent humans from New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon, vanished because of a severe summer drought. While, in the lecture we know some opposite information.
At first, we can know from the reading part that around 1130 A.D. there was an increasing temperature and the Anasazi were not adapted to the warmer weather followed by a severe drought. In addition, archeologists have found different kinds of dams and canals. That means the Anasazi suffered lack of water and so they made the irrigation systems to store water. Finally scientists find that before the big summer drought the tribe had a raising population. And they were short of food and water when the drought was coming since the large number of population.
In the lecture the professor says the global warmming could not lead to the the disppearance of the Anasazi becsuse some trees there still lived for thousands of years. On the other hand the high techniques of irrigatiom systems could provide them enough warter. So they could not suffer a drought.Since they could store water and crops, they could survive with a growing population. The professor also tells us some other possible reasons those are disease or over using the farmland.