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  2. Chaco Culture National Historical Park - Wikipedia

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    The park is located in northwestern New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington, in a remote canyon cut by the Chaco Wash. Containing the most sweeping collection of ancient ruins north of Mexico, the park preserves one of the most important pre-Columbian cultural and historical areas in the United States. [2] Between AD 900 and 1150, Chaco ...

  3. Timeline of Chacoan history - Wikipedia

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    The Chaco Project, conducted by the National Park Service and the University of New Mexico, surveys and excavates Chaco Canyon 1976-1978 Fourteen rooms at Pueblo Alto excavated by the Chaco Project 1980 Chaco Canyon National Monument is renamed Chaco Culture National Historical Park with 13,000 acres (53 km 2) added. The Chaco Culture ...

  4. Pueblo Bonito - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Una Vida - Wikipedia

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    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. Comprising at least two stories and 160 ...

  6. Ancestral Puebloans - Wikipedia

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    Pueblo Bonito, the largest of the Chacoan Great Houses, stands at the foot of Chaco Canyon's northern rim. The Ancestral Puebloan culture is perhaps best known for the stone and earth dwellings its people built along cliff walls, particularly during the Pueblo II and Pueblo III eras, from about 900 to 1350 CE in total.

  7. Richard Wetherill - Wikipedia

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    Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon. In 1896, Wetherill, and the Hyde Exploring Expedition (HEE) undertook massive excavation operations in Chaco Canyon on the Navajo Reservation under the oversight of the American Museum of Natural History. George Pepper, a 23-year old employee of the Museum who had never been in New Mexico, was appointed to lead ...

  8. The move came after Sofaer's rediscovery of the Sun Dagger site on Fajada Butte in Chaco Canyon. The organization is an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists, archaeoastronomers, geodesists and ...

  9. Chetro Ketl - Wikipedia

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    Chetro Ketl is an Ancestral Puebloan great house and archeological site located in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico, United States. Construction on Chetro Ketl began c. 990 and was largely complete by 1075, with significant remodeling occurring in the early and mid-1110s. Following the onset of a severe drought, most Chacoans ...