And the Ancestral Pueblo people, who dwelled here between A.D. 750 and 1300, were also sophisticated builders. The Hopi farmed in the valley seasonally from the 1300s to the 1600s, and the Hopi ...

B.C., the ancestors of the Pueblo people, known as the Anasazi, built thriving communities across the Four Corners region, leaving behind grand pueblos, intricate crafts, and striking rock art.

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 ...

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 ...

Perched high above the Verde Valley sit the striking ruins of a 110-room pueblo built by the ancestral Sinagua people around 1000 A.D. Constructed atop a limestone ridge more than 100 feet above ...

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 ...

Pueblo people are known for their complex, multi-level dwellings that date back centuries and continue to influence architectural design today.

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, ...

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 ...

Ashley M. Biggers, Contributor, Travel For centuries before the Europeans invaded North America, Ancestral Puebloan peoples lived in permanent settlements across the Southwest. At the Bandelier ...