In recent years, the Pueblo people have found ways to integrate their traditional culture with their widespread Christian beliefs. But revitalizing ancestral art forms, especially pottery, has also ...

In the desert Southwest, the Ancestral Puebloans held a particularly close connection with turkeys. During what archaeologists call the Basketmaker II period, which spanned around 400 B.C.E. to 100 ...

Panels of ancient rock art, called petroglyphs ... traditions of contemporary Hopi people — descendants of the ancestral Puebloans who lived in parts of the Southwest until the 13th century.

Pompeii, Machu Picchu, and Petra are alluring, ghostly places, cities that rose through mankind’s endeavor and ingenuity before being abandoned to the omnipotent hands of nature. Nestled on a ...

One of the strengths of the Pueblo tradition is the ability of more recent artisans to adopt and transform prehistoric decorative designs into contemporary works of art. Ancestral Clay brings to the ...

Long before the Pueblo Native Americans, the Anasazi created a thriving civilization in the Four Corners region of the American Southwest. Known for their grand pueblos, rock art, and intricate ...

It is just another slap in the face. Grand Gulch, a winding canyon in Cedar Mesa, is famous for its Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings and rock art. Photograph by Aaron Huey, National Geographic A ...

early cousins of the ancestral Puebloans with their large torsos, ear-bobs and duck-style headdresses. The face I see is from an even older tribal time. This Western Archaic rock art style known ...

The region was briefly farmed by ancestral Puebloans (formerly called Anasazi), whose rock art is still visible there today. Rugged and hard-to-access geography helped preserve the area until the ...

What’s been recognized in recent years is that the Ancestral Puebloans didn’t vanish. Whether because of a withering drought, deforestation and soil erosion, or attacks from other tribes ...