It should be no surprise that Chaco pottery was also unique and beautiful in its design, function and quality. Plain, clay cooking pots first appeared at Chaco around 450 to 500 A.D. More durable and ...

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, the area ...

The Chaco Canyon area was recognized as an endangered historic place as a debate continues over new drilling and mining claims.

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 the ...

The so-called “great houses” of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico may have taken decades or longer to construct. Most large complexes had four or five stories and averaged over 200 rooms, with the largest ...

For over 2,000 years, Pueblo peoples occupied a vast region of the south-western United States. Chaco Canyon, a major centre of ancestral Pueblo culture between 850 and 1250, was a focus for ...