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January 20, 1961 [2] Sandia Cave, also called the Sandia Man Cave, is an archaeological site near Bernalillo, New Mexico, within Cibola National Forest. First discovered and excavated in the 1930s, the site exhibits purported evidence of human use from 9,000 to 11,000 years ago. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961. [2]
The 25,000 year age for the "Sandia Man" deposits was a best guess based on the strata in the cave, and was later called into question, in part through radiocarbon dating. Also, research notes by Wesley Bliss (who had excavated in the cave in 1936) and others indicate that animal burrowing led to a mixing of deposits. The notion of a "Sandia ...
Sandia Cave Early snow on the Sandias, October 28, 2009. The Sandias contain a location notable for prehistoric archaeology: the Sandia Cave was believed by some in the 1930s to the 1950s [13] to have been inhabited 10000 to 12000 years ago by the "Sandia Man," a cultural classification that is no longer used. [14]
Sandia Base was the principal nuclear weapons installation of the United States Department of Defense from 1946 to 1971. [1] It was located on the southeastern edge of Albuquerque, New Mexico . For 25 years, the top-secret Sandia Base and its subsidiary installation, Manzano Base, carried on the atomic weapons research, development, design ...
History of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The history of Albuquerque, New Mexico dates back up to 12,000 years, beginning with the presence of Paleo-Indian hunter-gatherers in the region. Gradually, these nomadic people adopted a more settled, agricultural lifestyle and began to build multi-story stone or adobe dwellings now known as pueblos by 750 CE.
All of the places listed on the national register are also recorded on the State Register of Cultural Properties with the exception of Big Bead Mesa, Puye Ruins, and Sandia Cave. In addition to these, Jemez State Monument and Kuaua Ruin are New Mexico Historic Sites . This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings ...
Sandia Pueblo ( / sænˈdiːə /; Tiwa: Tuf Shur Tia) is a federally recognized tribe of Native American Pueblo people inhabiting a 101-square-kilometre (40 sq mi) reservation of the same name in the eastern Rio Grande Rift of central New Mexico. It is one of 19 of New Mexico's Native American pueblos, considered one of the state's Eastern Pueblos.
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. Most of the pueblo structures date to two eras, dating between AD 1150 and 1600.