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The key technology of the Pueblo peoples was their irrigation techniques. These were used throughout their dwellings, and often determined the siting of communities. Many pueblos feature T-shaped doors in adobe walls. Usually one meter wide, they are wider on top and narrower below. The Great house-style pueblos were constructed on a box system ...
An active pueblo that is home of one of the 21 federally recognized Pueblos. San Rafael de los Gentiles: Ruins Santiago Tiwa Bernalillo Village Excavated in the 1930s and now the site of modern homes. One of the 12 pueblos of Tiwa Indians along both sides of the Rio Grande, north and south of present-day Bernalillo; see Tiguex War. Senecú: Tiwa
Ruins of a multistoried pueblo of 200–250 rooms, AD 1275–1325 (late Pueblo III Era and/or early Pueblo IV Era). Betatakin: Ancestral Pueblo Kayenta: Navajo Reservation: Grand house Ruins located at the Navajo National Monument. Box Canyon Ruins: Flagstaff Ruins located in the Wupatki National Monument. Canyon Creek Ruins: Salado
Picuris Pueblo is located in northern New Mexico, [9] on the western slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and 18 miles south of Taos Pueblo. Average elevation in the pueblo is over 7,000 feet. [5] The Rio Santa Barbara and Rio Pueblo unite near Picurus to form Embudo Creek, a tributary of the Rio Grande. [10]
Pueblo Bonito (Spanish for beautiful town) is the largest and best-known great house in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, northern New Mexico. It was built by the Ancestral Puebloans who occupied the structure between AD 828 and 1126.
Dec. 16—One writer called them "dances of mystery" — public performances cloaked in a sense of privacy. The traditional cultural dances performed by many of New Mexico's pueblos around ...
Yellow Jacket pueblo was a village of the Mesa Verde culture was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [17] Covering 100 acres, the pueblo contains at least 195 kivas (including a probable great kiva), 19 towers, a possible Chaco-era great house, and as many as 1,200 surface rooms. See the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center.
Aug. 10—SANTA CLARA PUEBLO — A look of disappointment fell over Santa Clara Pueblo Gov. J. Micheal Chavarria as he observed the squalor that has invaded the tribe's ancestral lands, a place he ...