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They dot the landscape of the American Southwest, an ancient testament to the long history of a people who preserve their culture still today. Pit houses, cliff dwellings and adobe buildings reveal the Ancestral Pueblo people’s ability to adapt to the harsh environment of the desert. Archaeologists and historians have documented the changes and catalogued the artifacts, but it is the...
Their ancestors migrated to the Canon de San Diego region they still live in today in the thirteenth century. Once there, they built stone fortresses up to four stories high, some with as many as three thousand rooms. To provide for the nearly 30,000 people who called the Jemez Nation home, there were smaller base camps that connected the people to the large pueblos. Jemez people were...
