PRE COLUMBIAN ERA IN SW NEW MEXICO

Pre Columbian Era in SW New Mexico

Pre Columbian Era in SW New Mexico

Introduction

Ancient Pueblo Peoples culture is an important center of Chaco Canyon. Chacoans quarried sandstone blocks and 19 century in North America remained the largest buildings in 15 major assembly complexes, drew large distances timber. Butte a popular example in the Chaco Fajada archaeoastronomers proof has been with the Sun Dagger Petroglyph. Many Chacoan buildings, astronomical observations and centuries of skillfully coordinated construction that requires generations, can be compatible to catch the sun and moon cycles. Climate change is a 50-year drought in 1130, starting with a Chacoans migration and eventual abandonment the canyon, is thought to be caused.

Paleolithic and Neolithic periods Characterization of SW New Mexico

Chuska Mountains west of Chaco Canyon and the Colorado Plateau, surrounded by wide, located on the San Juan Basin is located in the north east of San Juan Mountains and San Pedro Mountains. (LeBlanc, 1999) Ancient Chacoans timber and other resources to get the oak, pine nuts, juniper, ponderosa pine, and drew on the dense forests. Dune fields, ridges, plains and mountains within the canyon itself is limited, running roughly northwest-southeast direction and is rimmed by massifs mesas known as the flat. large gaps between the southwestern cliff faces of canyons known as the side of the canyon into the rain-bearing storms rincons funneling and was critical to increase the local rainfall levels. Pueblo Bonito, Nuevo Alto, and Kin Kletso Chacoan complexes such as the base, 6,440 to 6,200 feet (1,890 to 1,960 m) have elevations. (LeBlanc, 1999)

Explain how nomatic and a more settled way of life has been changed to such collection.

Alluvial canyon floor 30 feet per mile (9.1 m) (6 meters per kilometer) northeast of the slope down a slight grade; that the Chaco Wash, an ...