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Ancestral Pueblo 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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Southwest architecture
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Ancestral Pueblo culture: References & Edit History

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Add new Web site: CORE - Pollen Concentration Analysis of Ancestral Pueblo Dietary Variation (PDF). Sep 06, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - Anasazi/Ancestral Pueblo (PDF). Mar 04, 2025
Add new Web site: Legends of America - Ancient Puebloans of the Southwest. Jan 24, 2025
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Ecosystem impacts by the Ancestral Puebloans of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, USA. Nov 25, 2024
Add new Web site: Nature - Scientific Reports - Climatic backdrop for Pueblo cultural development in the southwestern United States. Oct 15, 2024
Add new Web site: DigitalCommons at University of Nebraska - Lincoln - A Coprological View of Ancestral Pueblo Cannibalism. Sep 06, 2024
Add new Web site: National Park Service - Ancestral Pueblo People and Their World. Jun 13, 2024
Add new Web site: Utah History Encyclopedia - Anasazi. Feb 07, 2024
Add new Web site: History to Go - The Ancestral Puebloan Period. Nov 20, 2023
Add new Web site: Colorado Encyclopedia - Ancestral Puebloans of the Four Corners Region. Sep 25, 2023
Add new Web site: UShistory.org - The Anasazi. Aug 30, 2021
Add new Web site: National Park Service - Science of the American Southwest - Ancestral Puebloan. May 27, 2019
Add new Web site: Utah Division of State History - I love History - Ancestral Pueblo Culture. Sep 27, 2013
Media added. Mar 06, 2008
Article revised and updated. Mar 06, 2008
Article revised and updated. Feb 02, 2007
Added new Web site: Bureau of Land Management - Anasazi Heritage Center. Nov 06, 2006
Article revised. May 10, 2002
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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