Wood in the 'great houses' built in Chaco Canyon by ancient Puebloans came from two different mountain ranges, according to new research. Between 1020 and 1060, the Chacoans switched from ...

The most visibly striking features of Chaco Canyon are the remains of as many as 12 magnificent structures that archaeologists call “Great Houses.” To build the structures, Ancestral Pueblo ...

But that finding left them with even more questions. Pueblo Bonito, a Chaco Canyon “Great House, once spanned hundreds of rooms and was several stories tall. NPS Since then, experts have ...

The so-called "great houses" of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico may have taken decades or longer to construct. Most large complexes had four or five stories and averaged over 200 rooms, with the ...

Chaco Canyon sits near the border between New Mexico and Colorado. Thousands of people, the ancestors of today’s Diné, or Navajo, and Pueblo peoples, may have lived there from around A.D. 850 to 1200.

Located in the northwest corner of New Mexico, Chaco Canyon is home to grand structures built between A.D. 850 and 1200. Multistoried stone buildings called great houses had roofs with timber ...

Chaco Culture National Historic Park is located in the southeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau, some 88 miles (142 km) as the crow flies from the Four Corners region. Chaco Canyon is one of ...

Pueblo Bonito is one of the largest "great houses" constructed by the Chacoan people at Chaco Canyon. National Park Service Members of the Picuris Pueblo tribe in New Mexico have always known they ...

the largest building in Chaco Canyon, in archeaological terms, a Great House called Pueblo Bonito. With fellow researcher, Richard Friedman, Anna is about to enter a world where change was a ...

They trace ancestral connections to the famed complex of sandstone dwellings and roads at Chaco Canyon, a World Heritage ... who built “great houses” of masonry with hundreds of rooms.

Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico protects and preserve the massive buildings of the Ancestral Puebloan ...