New Mexico is a spectacular combo of stunning nature, rich history, and unique culture. Head between Albuquerque and Santa Fe to see the best of all three.

The "Chaco Culture," as modern-day archaeologists call it, flourished between roughly the 9 th and 13 th centuries A.D. and was centered at Chaco Canyon in what is now New Mexico. The people of ...

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

Here, the Chacoan people from the mid-9th to early 13th centuries created along Chaco Canyon the largest, most architecturally advanced (and most archaeoastronomically aligned) series of roads ...

Chaco Canyon demonstrates how people were able to engineer their landscape in a resourceful and sustainable way, he said. "Chaco Canyon captures the ingenuity and creativity of the human spirit ...

They also share strong genetic connections to the people of Chaco Canyon, where DNA has also been obtained from remains. "No other sampled population, ancient or present-day, ...

It hung over the ancient kiva — great houses — of the ancient Puebelon people, for whom Chaco Canyon was a center between AD 850 and 1250. ... Chaco Canyon can rarely have looked more dramatic.

The Pueblo people of Chaco Canyon decorated their great houses with six-digit footprints and sandal-shaped art. By Aaron Sidder. July 25, ...

The two scientists suggest that this is how ancient people of Chaco Canyon hauled timber across more than 75 kilometers about 1,000 years ago. Patrick Campbell/CU Boulder. Share this: ...

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.

Chaco Canyon protection celebration moved to Albuquerque. She said she understands people want this to happen for economic development, but argues the cost of oil and gas is not worth the price.