Wood acquisition was just one part of those routine but remarkable activities. Even with evidence from Indigenous knowledge keepers, archaeologists and other scientists, many questions remain.

There is no “obvious source of wood for the pueblos in Chaco Canyon,” said Guiterman. The trees had to be felled in forests 50 miles away and carried to the site.

To construct these great houses, archaeologists have estimated that the Chacoans would have needed wood from some 200,000 trees, and those 16-foot-long wooden beams must have been transported from ...

For the first time, a federally recognized Indigenous tribe in the U.S. has led research using DNA to show their ancestral history. The Picuris Pueblo, a sovereign nation in New Mexico, has oral ...

In 2023, when the Department of the Interior finalized Public Land Order 7923, withdrawing federal lands surrounding Chaco Canyon from future federal mineral leasing for 20 years, many of us ...

The findings, published Thursday in the journal Nature, show close links between the genomes of 13 current members of Picuris and ancient DNA recovered from 16 Picuris individuals who lived ...