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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. Most of the pueblo structures date to two eras, dating between AD 1150 and 1600.
Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (August 6, 1840 – March 18, 1914) was a Swiss and American archaeologist who particularly explored the indigenous cultures of the American Southwest, Mexico, and South America. He immigrated to the United States with his family as a youth and made his life there, abandoning the family business to study in the ...
The fire originated as a controlled burn that was part of the 10-year Bandelier National Monument plan for reducing fire hazard within the monument. [1] [3] The starting point was high on Cerro Grande, a 10,200-foot (3110-m) summit on the rim of the Valles Caldera not far north of New Mexico State Road 4, the main highway through Los Alamos County.
Tsankawi is a detached portion of Bandelier National Monument near White Rock, New Mexico. It is accessible from a roadside parking area, just north of the intersection of East Jemez Road and State Road 4. A self-guided 1.5-mile loop trail provides access to numerous unexcavated ruins, caves carved into soft tuff, and petroglyphs. [1]
Located on property owned by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, it is regarded as ancestral by the San Ildefonso Pueblo. Tyuonyi: Ruins located in the Bandelier National Monument. Una Vida: Ancestral Puebloan Crownpoint: Great house "One Life". Unexcavated ruins located in the Chaco Culture National Historical Park within 100 metres of the ...
A cliff dwelling at Bandelier National Monument. Most notable Pueblo structures were made of adobe and built like an apartment complex. Generally speaking, Pueblo buildings feature a box base, smaller box on top, and an even smaller one on top of that, with the tallest reaching four and five stories.
Negotiations over a new monument were long and contentious, but finally, on February 11, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the new Bandelier National Monument, naming it for Adolph Bandelier who had died recently. [3]
Established as a national monument in 1916, Bandelier encompasses about 34,000 acres that include a wilderness area and Cerro Grande Peak near Valles Caldera National Preserve.