When I stepped onto the trail at Bandelier National Monument, I couldn’t help but envision the Ancestral Pueblo people ...

A long-lasting drought meant fewer crops and scarce resources, and the social fabric of the tight-knit Ancestral Puebloan cultures began to unravel. Dwellings became more fortified. “Everything’s off ...

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 ...

Mesa Verde's cliff dwellings are a little crumbly in places ... it's easy to imagine the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo Indians who built these cliff houses 800 years ago. Ancestral Puebloans ...

A great concentration of ancestral Pueblo Indian dwellings, built from the 6th to the 12th century, can be found on the Mesa Verde plateau in south-west Colorado at an altitude of more than 2,600 m.

The Picuris Pueblo tribal nation initiated a genetic study that confirms their connection to Chaco Canyon -- a potential ...

Hooked onto a rope slung around a tree, National Park Service rock climber Dave Mealey walked backward off a cliff above Spruce Tree House, one of the best-preserved Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings ...

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, ...

WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) - (This April 30 story has been corrected to fix the direction to east, not west, in paragraph 8) DNA obtained from the remains of people who inhabited Pueblo Bonito ...

The park protects nearly 5,000 archaeological sites, preserving the heritage of the ancestral Pueblo people. The Pueblo settled in the region about 1,400 years ago and built cliff dwellings using ...