They also understood the importance of solar orientation. The ancient Puebloans built entire communities under the overhang of south-facing cliffs. This orientation ensured their buildings were ...

built by the ancestors of the Pueblo Indians nearly 1,000 years earlier. At first it seemed that Mesa Verde might suffer the same fate as smaller ancient sites discovered in the Four Corners area ...

Over thousands of years, the canyon has been the home of the ancient Puebloans and the Hopi, the Hualapai and Havasupai, the Paiute and the Navajo. It entered recorded history in 1540, when ...

The researchers performed CT scans of 137 mummies from across four continents and found artery plaque in every single population studied, from preagricultual hunter-gatherers in the Aleutian Islands ...