Centuries ago, the Ancestral Puebloans left behind massive stone structures and no clear explanation for their departure.

Chimney Rock National Monument protects a small group of Ancestral Puebloan ruins located 20 miles southwest of Pagosa Springs. The area was used to stargaze centuries ago and is still used for the… ...

The restored 1,000-year-old kiva takes you into this underground ceremonial room central to Ancestral Puebloan community life ...

Dungan noted that migration was always a pattern among the Ancestral Pueblo, but during the 1000s it reached a fever pitch. As the population grew, people cleared nearby forests to plant corn .

The Pueblo people created rock carvings in the Mesa Verde region of the Southwest United States about 800 years ago to mark the position of the sun on the longest and shortest days of the year.

Burke said Pueblo people began to migrate away from Mesa Verde in the 13th century. The exact reasons are unknown, but archaeologists tie the move to cultural and environmental changes.

Beginning in the 13th century, ancestral Jemez people built villages of 50 to more than 1,000 rooms in the region’s ponderosa pine forests. By 1600, between 5,000 and 8,000 people lived on the ...

Ancestral Pueblo peoples used centuries-old ice preserved in lava caves to survive five major droughts in the past 2,000 years. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip Featured ...

Unsatisfied with mining turquoise from local deposits, ancestral Pueblo people in New Mexico used long-distance trade networks to obtain their precious mineral.