and modern Pueblo tribes in the Southwest consider themselves descendants of these ancestral people. Some 40 pueblos and cliff dwellings are visible from park roads and overlooks; some of these ...

In 2016, the Pueblo of Santa Ana paid more than $30 million to buy back some of their own ancestral lands, Tamaya Kwii Kee Nee Puu. In an effort that unites elders and young people, traditional ...

Explore beautifully preserved Pueblo ruins, embark on some easy hikes with views that never end, and pitch your tent under ...

Authorities on Tuesday announced that the remains of 73-year-old hiker Thomas Irwin were located during an off-trail grid ...

Fifteen extra-large kivas (called “great kivas”) were built across the city, each capable of holding 400 people. And then, only about 300 years later, the Ancestral Puebloan civilization ...

Resource Protecting Sensitive Resources near Mesa Verde National Park The serene, semi-arid landscape of the Four Corners region of southwestern Colorado once housed an early Native American ...

Generally ladles are thought to have their origins in Ancestral Puebloan basketry and pottery. Some basketry ladles have been found at Aztec Ruin and Chaco Canyon (Morris and Burgh 1941), and they are ...

The park protects nearly 5,000 archaeological sites, preserving the heritage of the ancestral Pueblo people. The Pueblo settled in the region about 1,400 years ago and built cliff dwellings using ...