The Trump administration's focus on domestic energy production has pushed the Bureau of Land Management to reconsider a rule against oil drilling in a 10-mile area surrounding the Chaco Culture ...

A thousand years ago, the people living in Chaco Canyon were building massive structures of intricate masonry and trading with locations as far away as Mexico. Within a century, however ...

A New Mexico pueblo is going against the norm and using genetic testing, looking to answer questions about their history. The ...

Scientists are puzzled by how the ancient people, ancestors of modern-day ... led to a 2022 study recalculating the masses of the Chaco Canyon timbers as between 85 and 140 kilograms.

Chaco Canyon seems to have been at the center of this cosmology, an important intersection for many people. But the inhospitable environment meant food and supplies needed to be imported.

There are no preserved timber scrape marks near the site, and the people of Chaco Canyon didn't have draft animals or even wheels, according to Kram and his co-authors. So the logs must have been ...

New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon was home to Puebloan people who built monumental high-rises from sandstone and timber, established long-distance trade routes that brought in cacao and turquoise and ...

Chaco Canyon carries both cultural and historical ... “It really shows a lack of communication between the leadership and the people at the ground level. At one point we were able to identify ...

At its heart lies Chaco Canyon. 1000 years ago, a people, undaunted by the canyon's barren landscape, constructed monumental buildings for rituals attending to the sun and to the moon. A ...

NAVAJO NATION PRESIDENT NYGREN SAYS THIS IMPACTS THOUSANDS OF NAVAJO PEOPLE AND COULD AFFECT DEVELOPMENT ... TO BE ABLE TO COME UP WITH The Chaco Canyon land withdrawal attracted supporters ...

Chaco is a sacred ancestral land for her people – the Laguna Pueblo. Haaland is the first Indigenous member of a presidential cabinet in U.S. history. The buffer did not stop all oil and gas ...

When drought hit in 1130, it was obvious the people of Chaco Canyon had been living too close to the edge. Corn made up the bulk of their diet, as well the diet of their main source of meat ...