They also understood the importance of solar orientation. The ancient Puebloans built entire communities under the overhang of south-facing cliffs. This orientation ensured their buildings were ...

Today, some 300 two- and three-story adobe structures, their exterior ladders providing access to upper levels, house the pueblo's residents. Although only 20 or so individuals live permanently on ...

But as you explore the southwestern Colorado national park, it's easy to imagine the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo Indians who built these cliff houses 800 years ago. Ancestral Puebloans grew ...

The researchers performed CT scans of 137 mummies from across four continents and found artery plaque in every single population studied, from preagricultual hunter-gatherers in the Aleutian Islands ...

Walking among these ancient ruins, you can immerse yourself ... but by the ancestral Puebloans who lived here roughly between ...

built by the ancestors of the Pueblo Indians nearly 1,000 years earlier. At first it seemed that Mesa Verde might suffer the same fate as smaller ancient sites discovered in the Four Corners area ...