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By Mary Beth King
September 23, 2021
The once-thriving Tijeras Pueblo was situated at the junction of two canyons, one north-south and one east-west, within easy reach of a number of different ecoregions, as well as on a boundary between two distinct culture areas, the Pueblo to the west...
By Mary Beth King
September 07, 2021
Research recently published by adjunct assistant professor Cyler Conrad from the Department of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico examines the importance of turkeys to the Ancestral Pueblo people and how they have managed the birds for more than...
By Mary Beth King
November 12, 2020
Chaco Canyon is extraordinary in many respects, not least in the dense concentration of jewelry found in archaeological contexts dating between the 9th and early 12th centuries CE (Current Era). The largest and most prominent pueblo in the Canyon is...
By Mary Beth King
October 15, 2020
Many people believe that Ancestral Pueblo diets were almost solely dominated by run-of-the-mill foods like maize and rabbits. But archaeologists are turning that stereotype around. In early archaeological sites in the Middle Rio Grande basin of central...