"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.

Pueblo Bonito, the largest archeological site at Chaco Culture National Historical Park, is seen in northwestern New Mexico, on Aug. 28, 2021.

Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon had nearly 650 rooms, including a six-by-six chamber containing the graves of 14 people. Photograph by Stephen Plog. NEWS; ...

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 ...

Pueblo Bonito, the largest archeological site at Chaco Culture National Historical Park, is seen in northwestern New Mexico, on Aug. 28, 2021. Credit: AP/Cedar Attanasio ...

Pueblo Bonito, a Chaco Canyon “Great House, once spanned hundreds of rooms and was several stories tall. NPS. Since then, experts have considered many different carrying methods to explain just ...

Our first steps into the world of the Chaco people with Anna Sofaer, begins here, the largest building in Chaco Canyon, in archeaological terms, a Great House called Pueblo Bonito.

WASHINGTON — 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 ...