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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Lasers have revealed a 1,000-year-old sacred road near Chaco Canyon in New Mexico ... started as a religious movement among the local people, but little is known about the details of their ...

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 ...

When Haaland visited Chaco Canyon in 2019, allottees were also in ... Navajo police in her posted statement for their work to keep people safe at the protest, Yazzie said being in the middle ...

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 ...

Many of the Chaco Canyon timbers were huge ... To build the structures, Ancestral Pueblo people needed wood, sandstone blocks and mud mortar. Two of those ingredients—sandstone and mud ...

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 ...