Fifteen extra-large kivas (called “great kivas”) were built across the city, each capable of holding 400 people. And then, only about 300 years later, the Ancestral Puebloan civilization ...

The Ancestral Puebloan people of Mesa Verde faced this haunting reality during the late 1200s CE. The great drought transformed their carefully balanced world into an increasingly desperate ...

and modern Pueblo tribes in the Southwest consider themselves descendants of these ancestral people. Some 40 pueblos and cliff dwellings are visible from park roads and overlooks; some of these ...

Resource Protecting Sensitive Resources near Mesa Verde National Park The serene, semi-arid landscape of the Four Corners region of southwestern Colorado once housed an early Native American ...

Generally ladles are thought to have their origins in Ancestral Puebloan basketry and pottery. Some basketry ladles have been found at Aztec Ruin and Chaco Canyon (Morris and Burgh 1941), and they are ...

In 2016, the Pueblo of Santa Ana paid more than $30 million to buy back some of their own ancestral lands, Tamaya Kwii Kee Nee Puu. In an effort that unites elders and young people, traditional ...

I am an archaeologist, working in the U.S. Southwest. Most of my fieldwork has been in the Mogollon and Anasazi (Ancestral Pueblo) regions, but I’ve also dabbled in Hohokam, Casas Grandes, Jornada, ...