The sky had turned overcast by the time we reached camp. Heritage Inspirations founder Angelisa Murray hurried us into a ...

The ancestral Puebloans that called Chaco Canyon home a millennium ago used more than 200,000 pieces of timber to construct their buildings, with weights estimated between 185 and 605 pounds per log.

Great houses of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, were built in 850 to 1140AD; Land was largely treeless, but 240,000 trees were used in construction ...

Wood in the 'great houses' built in Chaco Canyon by ancient Puebloans came from two different mountain ranges, according to new research. Between 1020 and 1060, the Chacoans switched from ...

Chaco Canyon was once the vibrant religious center of a Native American culture whose collapse long remained a mystery—until ...

For reasons that are not entirely clear, Chaco’s inhabitants stopped building great houses in the middle of the 12th century, gradually migrating away. They did not, however, vanish.

Chetro Ketl, built during the 10th and 11th centuries, is one of the largest great houses in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. National Park Service.

image: The elaborate burial of two men in Chaco Canyon's Pueblo Bonito great house -- a 600-room, four-story structure that was considered the center of the Chaco world -- indicates the region may ...

Eclipse-chasers and archaeo-astronomers flocked to Chaco Canyon in New Mexico to see annularity from the home of the ... It hung over the ancient kiva — great houses — of the ancient ...

Wood in the 'great houses' built in Chaco Canyon by ancient Puebloans came from two different mountain ranges, according to new research. Between 1020 and 1060, the Chacoans switched from ...