2016
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May
Petroglyph National Monument
Banner image: Steven C. Price, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
The monument comprises rock art sites that date to the Ancestral Pueblo and Spanish colonial eras.
From the website of Petroglyph National Monument:
Petroglyph National Monument is a day-use park, which means the visitor center ...
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2016
27
May
Pueblitos of Dinétah
Banner image courtesy of the New Mexico Bureau of Land Management, via Flickr.
Visitors may explore a complex of 17th- and 18th-century Navajo structures that helped defend against threats from neighboring Spanish colonists. Many of the pueblitos (Spanish for "small villages") are positioned on t...
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2016
27
May
Puye Cliff Dwellings
Banner image by Carptrash, via Wikimedia Commons
This National Historic Landmark comprises surface, cave, and cliff dwellings ancestral to Santa Clara Pueblo, among others, which owns and manages the site.
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2016
27
May
Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument
Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument comprises three separate sites: Abo, Quarai, and Gran Quivira. Abo was a thriving Pueblo community at the time of first contact with the Spaniards. Its mission was built in the 17th century. Quarai was also a large pueblo community. Its mission was establish...
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2016
27
May
Salmon Ruins Museum
Salmon Pueblo was constructed as a Chacoan outlier—a settlement or enclave of people from Chaco Canyon—around A.D. 1090. At that time, the pueblo had 275 to 325 original rooms spread across three stories, an elevated tower kiva in its central portion, and a great kiva in its plaza. Subsequent u...
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2016
27
May
Three Rivers Petroglyph Site
Banner image by Dusty Matthews, via Wikimedia Commons
The Three Rivers Petroglyphs are outstanding examples of ancient Jornada Mogollon rock art dating from about A.D. 900 to 1400. More than 21,000 glyphs of birds, humans, animals, fish, insects, and plants, as well as numerous geometric and abst...
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2016
27
May
Fort Selden State Monument
Banner image by Df206, via Wikimedia Commons
Built of adobe, Fort Selden was established in 1865 on the banks of the Rio Grande. It housed units of the U.S. Infantry and Cavalry who were stationed to protect settlers and travelers from desperados and Apache Indians. Several units stationed at t...
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