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Bandelier National Monument is a 33,677-acre (136 km 2) United States National Monument near Los Alamos in Sandoval and Los Alamos counties, New Mexico. The monument preserves the homes and territory of the Ancestral Puebloans of a later era in the Southwest .
Location County Description; 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 ...
Located near Pueblo Bonito, it is on the north side of the arroyo. The original height was probably 4 stories, with two kivas in the court, three built within the pueblo walls, and four outside the main building. Pueblo del Encierro: Keresan Cochiti: Ruins located near the Cochiti Pueblo. Pueblo de los Jumanos: Jumano: Great house
Aztec Ruins. New Mexico: NPS: January 24, 1923: 318.4 acres (1.3 km 2) 54,933 The ruins contain Pueblo structures from the 11th to 13th centuries with more than 400 masonry rooms which were misidentified by early American settlers as Aztec.
Ancestral Pueblo people in the North American Southwest crafted a unique architecture with planned community spaces. Population centers such as Chaco Canyon (outside Crownpoint, New Mexico), Mesa Verde (near Cortez, Colorado), and Bandelier National Monument (near Los Alamos, New Mexico) have brought renown to the Ancestral Pueblo peoples. They ...
The National Monument has a visitor center containing a historical museum and showing a film about the fort’s history. A self-guiding trail leads through remains of the second and third forts. Ruins of the ordnance depot and site of the first fort are visible across the valley to the west.
Rohn and Ferguson, authors of Puebloan ruins of the Southwest, state that during the Pueblo III period there was a significant community change. Moving in from dispersed farmsteads into community centers at pueblos canyon heads or cliff dwellings on canyon shelves.
The skeleton known as Magdalenian Girl (or sometimes Magdalenian Woman) is that of an early modern human dating from 13,000 to 11,000 BCE during the Magdalenian period. It is the most complete Upper Paleolithic skeleton in Northern Europe.