For the first time, a tribe in the U.S. has led research using DNA to show their ancestral connection to Chaco Canyon, one of the ancient centers of Pueblo culture and society. The members of ...

The results show they have ties to Chaco Canyon going back hundreds of years. “It’s what we always talked about, what was passed on through generations – through our fore-fathers and our ...

They trace ancestral connections to the famed complex of sandstone dwellings and roads at Chaco Canyon, a World Heritage site about 125 miles to the west. But the small tribe didn’t have a ...

A thousand years ago, the people living in Chaco Canyon were building massive structures of intricate masonry and trading with locations as far away as Mexico. Within a century, however ...

The move came after Sofaer's rediscovery of the Sun Dagger site on Fajada Butte in Chaco Canyon. The organization is an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists, archaeoastronomers, geodesists and ...

The Picuris Pueblo, a sovereign nation in New Mexico, has oral histories and cultural traditions that link the tribe to the region of Chaco Canyon, one of the ancient centers of Pueblo culture and ...