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  2. Tsankawi - Wikipedia

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    Tsankawi is a detached portion of Bandelier National Monument near White Rock, New Mexico. It is accessible from a roadside parking area, just north of the intersection of East Jemez Road and State Road 4. A self-guided 1.5-mile loop trail provides access to numerous unexcavated ruins, caves carved into soft tuff, and petroglyphs. [1]

  3. Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition - Wikipedia

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    Bandelier published Copies Made Under A.F. Bandelier, a Member of the Hemenway Expedition, of Ancient Documents Existing in Mexico, Santa Fè, New Mexico, and Other Places in the Southwestern U.S., [9] and Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition: Contributions to the History of the Southwestern Portion of the United States (1890).

  4. Bandelier National Monument - Wikipedia

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    Looking over the cliff dwellings, Bandelier said, "It is the grandest thing I ever saw." [11] Based on documentation and research by Bandelier, support began for preserving the area and President Woodrow Wilson signed the declaration creating the monument in 1916. Supporting infrastructure, including a lodge, was built during the 1920s and 1930s.

  5. List of National Historic Landmarks in New Mexico - Wikipedia

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    1: Aztec Ruins National Monument: January 24, 1923: Aztec: San Juan: Preserves ancestral Pueblo structures in north-western New Mexico 2: Bandelier National Monument: February 11, 1916: Santa Fe: Sandoval and Los Alamos: Includes Frijoles Canyon; contains (restored) ruins of dwellings, kivas, rock paintings and petroglyphs 3: Chaco Culture ...

  6. Adolph Bandelier - Wikipedia

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    Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (August 6, 1840 – March 18, 1914) was a Swiss and American archaeologist who particularly explored the indigenous cultures of the American Southwest, Mexico, and South America. He immigrated to the United States with his family as a youth and made his life there, abandoning the family business to study in the ...

  7. Pueblo III Period - Wikipedia

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    At Bandelier, the dwellings were carved directly into the soft ashy rock formations that make up the cliff faces of the finger mesas (the Bandelier Tuff). To build the dwellings, materials had to be brought to the alcove, such as fill dirt to level the cave floor, stones and mortar. Masonry craftsmanship became refined by this period. Stones ...

  8. Category : Ruins on the National Register of Historic Places

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    Bandelier National Monument (4 P) Pages in category "Ruins on the National Register of Historic Places" The following 115 pages are in this category, out of 115 total.

  9. List of Ancestral Puebloan dwellings in New Mexico - Wikipedia

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    Ruins with as many as 25 rooms. [2] [3] Arroyo Hondo: Tano Galisteo: Great House Ruins located on the Galisteo Basin also known as Kua-Kay. 24 great houses with about 1200 rooms total, each about three stories high, surrounded eight plazas, and had at least eight kivas. The inhabitants also constructed an acequia system (irrigation ditch) from ...