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Chaco Culture National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park in the American Southwest hosting a concentration of pueblos.The park is located in northwestern New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington, in a remote canyon cut by the Chaco Wash.
Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness is located in San Juan County, New Mexico, between Chaco Canyon and the De-Na-Zin Wilderness.Its name is a phonetic transliteration of Navajo "áshįįh łibá" meaning "salt, it is grey (grey salt)".
The Chacra Mesa is a high mesa massif composing the southwestern flank of Chaco Canyon, a region that is notable for its rich collection of Ancestral Puebloan archaeological sites. It is located in the northwest portion of the U.S. state of New Mexico, in what is now Chaco Culture National Historical Park.
Pueblo Bonito is the largest great house in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Examination of pack rat middens revealed that at the time that Pueblo Bonito was built, Chaco Canyon and the surrounding areas were wooded by trees such as ponderosa pines. Evidence of such trees can be seen within the structure of Pueblo Bonito, such as the first-floor ...
Established in 1933, Chaco Canyon National Monument was created to preserve the very large collection of Ancestral Puebloan dwellings, kivas, and primitive roads located in and around Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico. In 1980, recognizing the importance of the archaeological research being done in and around Chaco Canyon and the ...
Although Chaco Canyon might have exerted regional control over Mesa Verde during the late 11th and early 12th centuries, most archaeologists view the Mesa Verde region as a collection of smaller communities based on central sites and related outliers that were never fully integrated into a larger civic structure. [67]
The move came after Sofaer's rediscovery of the Sun Dagger site on Fajada Butte in Chaco Canyon. The organization is an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists, archaeoastronomers, geodesists and ...
The Chaco Project, conducted by the National Park Service and the University of New Mexico, surveys and excavates Chaco Canyon 1976-1978 Fourteen rooms at Pueblo Alto excavated by the Chaco Project 1980 Chaco Canyon National Monument is renamed Chaco Culture National Historical Park with 13,000 acres (53 km 2) added. The Chaco Culture ...