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Cliff dwellings – Constructed in the sides of the mesas and mountains of the Southwest, cliff dwellings comprised a large number of the defensive structures of the Pueblo people. Jacal is a traditional adobe house built by the ancestral Pueblo peoples. Slim close-set poles were tied together and filled out with mud, clay and grasses, or adobe ...
An active pueblo that is home of one of the 21 federally recognized Pueblos, known as the Walatowa. Kechipbowa: Zuni Zuni: Ruins located on the Zuni Indian Reservation in the Zuni-Cibola Complex and that is listed as a National Historic Landmark. Kewa: Keres An active pueblo that is home of one of the 21 federally recognized Pueblos. Called the ...
Pueblo, [9] which means "village" and "people" in Spanish, was a term originating with the Spanish explorers who used it to refer to the people's particular style of dwelling. The Navajo people, who now reside in parts of former Pueblo territory, referred to the ancient people as Anaasází , an exonym meaning "ancestors of our enemies ...
Pueblo peoples Nearest town (modern name) Location Type Description Photo Hovenweep Castle: Anasazi: Bluff: Ruins located in Hovenweep National Monument. Square Tower Anasazi Bluff Ruins located in Hovenweep National Monument. Cutthroat Castle: Anasazi Bluff Ruins located in Hovenweep National Monument. Horseshoe: Anasazi Bluff
Ruins of a multistoried pueblo of 200–250 rooms, AD 1275–1325 (late Pueblo III Era and/or early Pueblo IV Era). Betatakin: Ancestral Pueblo Kayenta: Navajo Reservation: Grand house Ruins located at the Navajo National Monument. Box Canyon Ruins: Flagstaff Ruins located in the Wupatki National Monument. Canyon Creek Ruins: Salado
Wallace Ruin, was a Northern San Juan and Chaco pueblo inhabited during the broad 1000 to 1499 period [Ancient Pueblo People left southwestern Colorado by 1300]. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. [17] Woods Canyon Pueblo (Site ID 5MT.11842) Anasazi Pueblo II, Pueblo III Yellow Jacket: Federal Great house
The events that led to the Pueblo Revolt go back at least a decade before the formal uprising began. In the 1670s, severe drought swept the region, which caused both a famine among the Pueblo and increased the frequency of raids by the Apache. Neither Spanish nor Pueblo soldiers were able to prevent the attacks by the Apache raiding parties.
During the Pueblo III Period most people lived in communities with large multi-storied dwellings. Some moved into community centers at pueblos canyon heads, such as Sand Canyon and Goodman Point pueblos in the Montezuma Valley; others moved into cliff dwellings on canyon shelves such as Mesa Verde or Keet Seel in the Navajo National Monument.