2016
01
Jun
Chaco Social Networks
Banner image by Ely Rareshide
Doorways in Pueblo Bonito
The Dynamics of Chacoan Social and Spatial Networks, A.D. 800–1200
With National Science Foundation support (BCS-1355381), we collaborated with a team of researchers (including Archaeology Southwest’s Paul Reed and ASU's Matt...
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2016
01
Jun
Social Networks in the Late Precontact Southwest
Click here (opens as a PDF) to read the latest article on the project in the professional journal American Antiquity (Vol. 80, No. 1, 2015).
In the age of Facebook and Twitter, “social network” is a phrase heard or read almost daily—but social networks are a mainstay of the human experience...
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2016
01
Jun
Migration and Change in the Southern Southwest
Banner image courtesy of Eastern Arizona College
The centuries between A.D. 1200 and 1540 were a time of great change in the Southwest. Deteriorating environmental conditions on the Colorado Plateau in the late 1200s led people to leave the Four Corners region. This movement of northern peoples i...
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2016
27
May
Fort Union National Monument
Banner image: Third Fort Union Military Prison, courtesy of the Fort Union National Monument
First situated near the junction of the Mountain and Cimarron Branches of the Santa Fe Trail, Fort Union (1851–1891) was one of the largest military installations in the New Mexico Territory. The locati...
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2016
27
May
Acoma Pueblo: Sky City Cultural Center and Haak'u Museum
Banner image by Scott Catron, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Acoma's Sky City Cultural Center and Haak'u Museum serve as the reception center and museum for visitors to the Pueblo of Acoma, the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in North America and the twenty-eighth Historic Site designate...
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2016
27
May
Aztec Ruins National Monument
Banner image by Rationalobserver, via Wikimedia Commons
The Aztec Community comprises west and east Chacoan great houses and other structures. Only West Ruin is open to visitors; the half-mile self-guided visitor trail winds through a reconstructed great kiva and through original great house roo...
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2016
27
May
Bandelier National Monument
Banner image by Ish ishwar, courtesy of Wikipedia
Bandelier National Monument comprises 33,000 acres of canyon and mesa country, as well as evidence of a human presence going back more than 11,000 years. Ancestral Pueblo communities thrived here from about 1150 to 1550. Their descendants live i...
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2016
27
May
Chaco Culture National Historical Park
A nexus for thousands of people between A.D. 850 and 1250, Chaco Canyon is home to massive Ancestral Pueblo buildings that are marvels of engineering and skill. The monumental structures are but one kind of material evidence of a complex community with wide-ranging cultural and economic networks.
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2016
27
May
Coronado Historic Site
Banner image by Tillman, via Wikimedia Commons
Coronado Historic Site includes Kuaua Pueblo. Kuaua Pueblo was established around A.D. 1325 by Tiwa-speaking people. Kuaua, which means "evergreen," was the northernmost of 12 Tiwa villages in the Rio Grande valley. About 1,200 people were living at ...
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2016
27
May
Dittert Site
The Dittert site is an ancient Pueblo settlement located in Armijo Canyon, New Mexico, roughly 35 miles south-southeast of the town of Grants. Comprising roughly 35 rooms over two stories of construction and a large blocked-in kiva, the site manifests an L-shape and the classic Pueblo III building s...
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2016
27
May
El Morro National Monument
A place where prehistory and history converge, “Inscription Rock” at El Morro exhibits fascinating rock art panels engraved by ancient Pueblo peoples, Spanish explorers, and Euro-Americans.
Atsinna Pueblo (ancestral Zuni) is perched atop a 200-foot-high sandstone monolith. The site is accessi...
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2016
27
May
Zuni Pueblo
Banner image by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, via Wikimedia Commons
Halona Idiwan'a, the Middle Place, is the Zuni name for Zuni Pueblo. The pueblo is located about 150 miles west of Albuquerque, in a valley surrounded by mesas. The Zuni people have lived in the Southwest since time immemorial, and thei...
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