"No other sampled population, ancient or present-day, is more closely related to Ancestral Puebloans from Pueblo Bonito [in Chaco Canyon] than the Picuris individuals are," the paper concludes.

“I’m confident his matriline was the most powerful in Pueblo Bonito, and probably in Chaco Canyon. It was an elite group, able to control resources and have influence over broad areas of the ...

DNA obtained from the remains of people who inhabited Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon a millennium ago is helping to link present-day members of a Pueblo tribe to this historic site ...

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 ...

A groundbreaking genetic analysis published in the journal Nature in April confirmed the genetic links between the modern-day ...

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 ...

Pueblo Bonito, the largest archeological site at Chaco Culture National Historical ... the Pueblo people who live all around the canyon to this day.” Brian Vallo, a member of the Acoma Pueblo ...

Kivas, round underground ceremonial spaces, dot Pueblo Bonito and other sites in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico.(Paul Ross / Special Contributor) “I think we’re going to be quite proud of this study ...

They suggest that Pueblo Bonito functioned as a ritual center, supported not only by the existence of kivas but also by the construction of the site and its relationship to other places in Chaco ...

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 ...