This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Radiocarbon dates on artifacts from a Puebloan shrine in New Mexico reveal a persistence in ritual practice for some 3,800 years. The dates ...

Climate change led Ancestral Puebloans to relocate, forming denser communities and building grand structures like the great kivas in Chaco Canyon. Sinensky et al. / Antiquity, 2021 In 536 and 541 C.E.

Kiva, Vol. 85, No. 4, Special Issue: New Findings from the Far Western Pueblo Region: Papers in Honor of Margaret Lyneis (DECEMBER 2019), pp. 434-450 (17 pages) More than 50 years ago archaeologists ...

In Craig Childs’ new book, “House of Rain,” Childs succeeds in translating a good hunk of Southwestern archaeology while providing us with the kind of inductive visceral experience Childs does better ...

The first archaeological subdivision in America has a simple premise: The owner of each roughly 35-acre plot is guaranteed that his or her property contains archaeological sites. The covenants of the ...

ST. GEORGE, Utah — The excavated site of an unusual ancestral Puebloan pit house was reburied last week, closing the book on a recent effort to solve its mysteries but leaving open opportunities for ...

About a millennium ago, the ancestral Pueblo Indians in the Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico obtained their precious turquoise using a large trade network spanning several states, new research ...

PAGOSA SPRINGS — A blinding bolt of light zigzagged from a leaden sky. A cracking boom thundered three seconds later. “We need to get everyone off the mountain immediately,” our guide shouted. My wife ...

An isotopes analysis was used to determine that many pieces of turquoise found in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon came from as far away as Nevada About a millennium ago, the ancestral Pueblo Indians in the ...