Chaco Canyon National Historical Park is nestled deep in the Navajo Nation of modern-day New Mexico. Surrounded by desert and only accessible by unpaved roads, it usually receives fewer than 5000 ...

They were working to stabilize Ancestral Puebloan structures built by their ancestors long ago. Thirty-year-old Kendrick Nahohai, the crew leader, laid on his belly with his feet pointed downslope ...

In 2016, the Pueblo of Santa Ana paid more than $30 million to buy back some of their own ancestral lands, Tamaya Kwii Kee Nee Puu. In an effort that unites elders and young people, traditional ...

Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado protects and preserves the cultural heritage of 26 tribes of Ancestral Pueblo people. Mesa Verde National Park’s history begins long before its ...

Ashley M. Biggers, Contributor, Travel For centuries before the Europeans invaded North America, Ancestral Puebloan peoples lived in permanent settlements across the Southwest. At the Bandelier ...

They are now more accurately called the ancestral Puebloans, and modern Pueblo tribes in the Southwest consider themselves descendants of these ancestral people. Some 40 pueblos and cliff ...

Taos Pueblo, whose culture and community are active and thriving, shows many similarities to settlement sites of the ancestral Pueblo people that are preserved in nearby places such Chaco Canyon and ...

Generally ladles are thought to have their origins in Ancestral Puebloan basketry and pottery. Some basketry ladles have been found at Aztec Ruin and Chaco Canyon (Morris and Burgh 1941), and they are ...

I am an archaeologist, working in the U.S. Southwest. Most of my fieldwork has been in the Mogollon and Anasazi (Ancestral Pueblo) regions, but I’ve also dabbled in Hohokam, Casas Grandes, Jornada, ...