🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Three Rivers Petroglyphs New Mexico
Jornada Mogollon (900–1400 CE) · Jornada Mogollon
Three Rivers recorded by Schaafsma 1960s, Jornada style linked to Mimbres–Casas Grandes.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Pueblo Bonito — North Wall Ancillary (Chaco Canyon)
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Pueblo Bonito — North Wall Ancillary (Chaco Canyon) in New Mexico, San Juan County, Chaco Canyon, United States is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 …
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
Mogollon Tularosa 1275–1300 CE · Mogollon
46 rooms in five caves 1275–1300 CE, Mogollon.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Chaco Culture National Historical Park
Pueblo II–III 850–1250 CE (Chacoan fluorescence 1020–1140) · Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) / Chacoan
Chacoan canyon with 15 monumental Great Houses (Pueblo Bonito 650 rooms, 35 kivas) and engineered roads, built 850–1150 CE by Ancestral Puebloans as ritual and trade center for San Juan Basin,…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Peñasco Blanco (Penasco Blanco)
Pueblo I-II-III; Chuskum-Chacoan · Chacoan × Chuskan frontier (Chuska timber route)
Mesa-top wedge great house on West Mesa promontory (900–1125 CE) controlling west gap and Chuska roads — crescent plan with great kiva and hinterland pictograph.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Wijiji (Chaco Canyon)
Pueblo III; late McElmo revival · Mesa Verde McElmo → Chaco East Wash
Late McElmo eastern great house (30 rooms, 1105–1115 CE) at Chaco Wash narrows — single-wing McElmo revival after main canyon collapse, with check dams.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Hungo Pavi (Chaco Canyon)
Pueblo II-III; Chacoan · Chacoan Ancestral Pueblo → McElmo
Chaco south-side great house (72 rooms, 1100 CE) with tower kiva, enclosed plaza and South Road segment — Bonito to McElmo transition across canyon.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Una Vida (Chaco Canyon)
Pueblo I-III; early Bonito · Chacoan pioneer (Pueblo I) → classic Bonito
Earliest canyon great house (800–930 CE) at eastern mouth — L-shaped early Bonito 80-room great house with great kiva, petroglyphs and Fajada alignment, Chaco genesis type.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Kin Klizhin (Chaco Outlier)
Pueblo II-III; Chaco outlier · Chacoan McElmo outlier / local Red Mesa synthesis
Southern Wash outlier great house (50 rooms, c.1085 CE) with L-plan and Chaco road causeway — wash-margin agricultural outlier illustrating Chaco emulation.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Chetro Ketl (Chaco Canyon)
Pueblo II-III; Chacoan florescence then McElmo Mesa Verde · Chacoan Ancestral Puebloans (Homools? Pueblo I-III) → McElmo Mesa Verde
Chaco’s second city (400 rooms, D-shaped, 1010–1110 CE) with colonnade and great kiva — McElmo-renovated great house, 3 storeys high on north Chaco mesa.
🇺🇸 United States · Temple complex
Pueblo Bonito - Chaco Canyon Great House
Chacoan Phenomenon 828–1126 CE · Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) Chaco
Pueblo Bonito – Chaco's 800-room D-shaped great house (828–1126 CE), 4 stories, 650 rooms, theatral central plaza and 32 kivas, aligned to cardinal directions and Chaco meridian.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Kin Ya‘a (Chaco Outlier Great House)
Pueblo II-III; Bonito outlier peak · Chacoan outlier (McElmo transitional)
South Road great house outlier (100 rooms, 1080–1100 CE) 35 km south of Chaco — tower kiva, 8 m wide Chaco road berm to canyon, defining regional system maximum.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Petroglyph National Monument — Mesa Prieta Boca Negra Canyon
Ancestral Puebloan (1000–1400 CE) and Spanish 1700s · Ancestral Puebloan → Rio Grande Pueblo
Albuquerque mesa excavated by Sundt 1970s, 24k peck basalt trail, NPS Mesa Prieta 1000.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Bandelier National Monument
Ancestral Pueblo III–IV 1150–1550 CE (Pajarito Plateau settlement after Mesa Verde diaspora) · Ancestral Puebloan / Keresan and Tewa (ancestors of Cochiti, San Ildefonso, Santa Clara)
13,355 ha of Frijoles Canyon with tuff cliff dwellings (cavates), mesa-top Tyuonyi Pueblo (400 rooms, 1–3 storeys) and Long House cliff village (800 m long) in soft Bandelier Tuff (1.1 Ma Jemez…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo Bonito (Chaco Canyon)
Pueblo II–III · Ancestral Puebloan / Chacoan
Greatest great house of Chaco: D-shaped 800-room complex with 32 kivas, planned in stages 850–1150 CE, aligned to cardinal directions and Chacoan road system radiating 60 km.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Chaco Canyon — Kin Bineola West Outlier
Chacoan (950–1140 CE) · Ancestral Puebloan Chacoan
Kin Bineola excavated by Vivian 1960s, Chaco road to south Bonito via South Gap.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Kin Bineola — Chaco Outlier Great House South
Pueblo II–III Chacoan (1080–1140 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo (Chacoan)
South Road Great House 1080 CE — 120 rooms, kiva & 9 m Chaco road.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Peñasco Blanco — Chaco Canyon Outer Great House West
Pueblo II–III (1050–1140 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo (Chacoan)
Cliff-point Great House 1050 CE — oval arc & solstice pictograph.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
El Morro — Inscription Rock Pueblo Shrine Waterhole
Ancestral Pueblo (1275–1350 pueblo) + Spanish/American inscriptions 1605–1906 · Zuni / Ancestral Pueblo → Oñate Spanish 1605 to Beale wagon 1857
El Morro Atsinna excavated by Watson Smith 1940s, Oñate 1605 'pasó por aquí' oldest European inscription SW US.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Cíbola – Seven Cities of Gold
Legend 8th c. Visigothic bishops flight + 1539–42 contact episode · Iberian medieval + Zuni (Ashiwii) + Coronado Spanish
Fray Marcos's 1539 'streets of turquoise' at Zuni – Coronado found adobe Hawikuh, no gold.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Kin Bineola (Kin Binola)
Chaco Late Bonito to Post-Chaco San Juan · Chaco (ancestral Pueblo) → Mesa Verde–San Juan reoccupation
Isolated Chacoan great house outlier (c.1050–1110 CE core, Late Pueblo II, Classic Bonito phase + San Juan reoccupation c.1150) 26 km SW of Chaco proper — closest great house to Chaco that captures…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo Pintado (Red House)
Chaco Bonito to Post-Chaco (Late Pueblo II–III) · Chaco (ancestral Pueblo) → post-Chaco San Juan
Southeasternmost Chaco great house outlier (c.1050–1120 CE, Bonito II–III) on Pintado Mesa overlooking Rio Chaco headwater — eastern gate of Chaco world.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Salmon Ruins (Salmon Pueblo)
Chacoan to Post-Chaco (Late Pueblo II to III) · Chaco Culture → Mesa Verde–San Juan (ancestral Pueblo)
Northern Chaco great-house outlier (c.1090–1280 CE) — 300-room 2-storey sandstone Chacoan great house built 1090 CE by Chaco Canyon elite as toll/ grain colony on San Juan, then reoccupied 1125–1280…