Pueblo Bonito (Spanish for beautiful town) is the largest and best-known great house in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, northern New Mexico. It was built by the Ancestral Puebloans …

The cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde are some of the most notable and best preserved in North America. Sometime during the late 1190s, after primarily living on the mesa tops for 600 years, …

Apr 7, 2021 · They lived in family pit houses, grand pueblos such as the great houses of Chetro Ketl and Pueblo Bonito, and cliff-sited dwellings for defense. The descendants of the Pueblo …

Pueblo Bonito (Spanish for “Beautiful Town”) is the most famous pre-Columbian building in North America. One of the largest first-order Chacoan great houses, it lies roughly at the center of …

Pueblo Bonito is amongst the largest and most completely excavated archaeological sites in the U.S. Southwest. It encompasses approximately 600 masonry rooms up to four storeys in …

Jul 9, 2023 · Pueblo Bonito is the most thoroughly investigated and celebrated cultural site in Chaco Canyon. Planned and constructed in stages between AD 850 to AD 1150 by ancestral …

Oct 2, 2024 · New Mexico's cliff dwellings offer a unique glimpse into ancient civilizations. These structures, carved into cliffs, showcase the ingenuity and resilience of the Ancestral …

Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon is one of the most iconic pre-Hispanic archaeological sites in the U.S. Southwest. Archaeologists refer to it as a great house in recognition of its massive scale,

Sep 2, 2023 · Pueblo Bonito is situated immediately adjacent to the sheer north wall of Chaco Canyon. It is so close to the cliff that in 1941 a massive piece of the cliff—some 30,000 tons of …

Pueblo Bonito is the largest ancient dwelling at Chaco Canyon, and in fact the largest known Anasazi dwelling. The South wall (running vertically along the right of the photograph) is nearly …