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Chaco Canyon, located in New Mexico, USA, was a major center of the Ancestral Puebloan culture between roughly AD 850 and 1150. The site is distinguished by its massive, multi-story stone structures known as great houses, such as Pueblo Bonito, which were connected by an extensive system of engineer...
Rinconada Canyon is a major geological and archaeological unit within the Petroglyph National Monument in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The site features a 2.2-mile loop trail that guides visitors through a volcanic basalt escarpment where approximately 300 petroglyphs are visible. These rock carvings we...
Alfred V. Kidder was an American archaeologist whose fieldwork helped establish systematic methods for studying the ancient cultures of the southwestern United States. Beginning in 1915, his excavations at Pecos Pueblo in New Mexico used stratigraphy and artifact classification to construct a region...
Wupatki National Monument is an archaeological site located in northern Arizona that preserves a series of ancient, multi-room pueblo ruins. Established as a protected site in 1924, the monument is centered around the Wupatki Pueblo, a large structure that once housed hundreds of Ancestral Puebloan...
Frank Hamilton Cushing (1857–1900) was an American anthropologist associated with the Bureau of American Ethnology who conducted pioneering immersive fieldwork at Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico. Arriving at Zuni in 1879 as part of the James Stevenson expedition, Cushing remained for over four years, lear...
Elsie Clews Parsons (1875–1941) was an American anthropologist, sociologist, and folklorist who conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork among Pueblo communities in the American Southwest. Alongside her anthropological documentation of indigenous cultures and regional folklore, she was a vocal ear...
The Comanche Gap Petroglyphs are a rock art site in the Galisteo Basin of New Mexico, featuring imagery characteristic of the Rio Grande style. Created by ancestral Pueblo peoples roughly between 1300 and 1700 CE, the carvings include kachina-related figures, shield-bearing warriors, and animal figu...
Ruth Leah Bunzel was an American anthropologist who studied under Franz Boas at Columbia University, becoming one of the first women to conduct independent ethnographic fieldwork in the Boasian tradition. Her groundbreaking 1929 study 'The Pueblo Potter' examined the artistic practices and learning...
