Ancestral Pueblo culture: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Hisatsinom culture • Anasazi culture

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Southwest architecture

Adobe buildings of Taos Pueblo in New Mexico with a rounded adobe baking oven in the foreground and two people sitting on a rooftop ladder. Mountains are visible in the background.

Ancient stone dwellings of Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde, Colorado, show multistory rooms, round kivas, and towers built into a cliff alcove.

The intricate cliff dwellings of Ancestral Puebloans

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Developmental Pueblo period Indigenous peoples of the Americas Hohokam culture Mogollon culture Archaic culture Mississippian culture Big-Game Hunting Tradition Woodland cultures Desert cultures Old Cordilleran culture Stone tool industry Moche

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