Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The pueblo or village was settled about 1325 and abandoned toward the end of the 16th century. The Coronado Historic Site was the first state archaeological site to open to the public. It was dedicated on May 29, 1940, as part of the Cuarto Centenario commemoration [4] (400th Anniversary) of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado's entry into New ...
Pueblo Bonito is the largest great house in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Examination of pack rat middens revealed that at the time that Pueblo Bonito was built, Chaco Canyon and the surrounding areas were wooded by trees such as ponderosa pines. Evidence of such trees can be seen within the structure of Pueblo Bonito, such as the first-floor ...
Ancestral Puebloan New Mexico Ruins Site map of Halfway House Outlier, with Great North Road: Hawikuh: Zuni Zuni: Ruins located on the Zuni Indian Reservation in the Zuni-Cibola Complex and that is listed as a National Historic Landmark. Hogback Outlier: Mountainair: 50 miles northwest of Chaco Culture National Historical Park
The Puye Cliff Dwellings are the ruins of an abandoned pueblo, located in Santa Clara Canyon on Santa Clara Pueblo Reservation land near Española, New Mexico.Established in the late 1200s or early 1300s and abandoned by about 1600, this is among the largest of the prehistoric Indian settlements on the Pajarito Plateau, showing a variety of architectural forms and building techniques.
Ancestral Puebloans spanned Northern Arizona and New Mexico, Southern Colorado and Utah, and a part of Southeastern Nevada. They primarily lived north of the Patayan, Sinagua, Hohokam, Trincheras, Mogollon, and Casas Grandes cultures of the Southwest [1] and south of the Fremont culture of the Great Basin.
Una Vida is an archaeological site located in Chaco Canyon, San Juan County, New Mexico, United States.According to tree rings surrounding the site, its construction began around 800 AD, at the same time as Pueblo Bonito, [1] and it is one of the three earliest Chacoan Ancestral Puebloan great houses.
This ancient pueblo belongs to a Northern Tiwa speaking Native American tribe of Pueblo people. Being approximately 1000 years old, it is believed to be the oldest continuously inhabited building in North America. It is a multi-storied residential complex of reddish-brown adobe divided into two parts by the Rio Pueblo de Taos. 42: Trinity Site
The statue was the second commissioned by the state of New Mexico for National Statuary Hall; it was the 100th and last to be added to the collection, which represents the Senate. It was created by Cliff Fragua, a Puebloan from Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico. It is the only statue in the collection to be created by a Native American. [6]