Pueblo

Examples of Pueblo in the following topics:

• The Southwest

  • The Anasazi (1000 BCE–700 CE) are the ancestors of today's Pueblo tribes.
  • Turquoise, jet, and spiny oyster shell were traditionally used by Ancestral Pueblo for jewelry and sophisticated inlay.
  • Southwest architecture includes cliff dwellings (multi-story settlements carved from living rock), pit houses, and adobe and sandstone pueblos.
  • The largest of these settlements, Pueblo Bonito, contains over 800 rooms .
  • The impressive Pueblo Bonito was built by the Ancestral Puebloans as one of several settlements at Chaco Canyon.

• Art and Architecture of the Southwest Cultures

  • The Anasazi, or Ancestral Pueblo (1000 BCE–700 CE), are the ancestors of today's Pueblo tribes.
  • Jewelry and other ornaments were made by the Pueblo using shells and stones bartered from the coasts of Mexico and California.
  • The Anasazi culture is perhaps best known for the stone and adobe dwellings built along cliff walls, particularly during the Pueblo II (900-1150 CE) and Pueblo III (1150-1350 CE) eras.
  • These villages, called pueblos by Spanish settlers, were often only accessible by rope or rock climbing.
  • Ceramic bowl from Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, Pueblo III phase.

• Southwestern Culture

  • One of the major cultures that developed during this time was the Pueblo peoples, formerly referred to as the Anasazi.
  • Ancestral Pueblo peoples are renowned for the construction of and cultural achievement present at Pueblo Bonito and other sites in Chaco Canyon, as well as Mesa Verde, Aztec Ruins, and Salmon Ruins.
  • For the Pueblos and other Southwest American Indian communities, the transition from a hunting-gathering, nomadic experience to more permanent agricultural settlements meant more firmly established families and communities.
  • Many Southwest tribes during the Post-Archaic period lived in a range of structures that included small family pit houses, larger structures to house clans, grand pueblos, and cliff-sited dwellings for defense.
  • Some of these cultural traditions include the Yuman-speaking peoples inhabiting the Colorado River valley, the uplands, and Baja California; O'odham peoples of southern Arizona and northern Sonora; and the Pueblo peoples of Arizona and New Mexico.

• Smallpox

  • By 1780, it had reached the Pueblos of the territory comprising present-day New Mexico.

• Photography in the Latter 20th Century

  • Ansel Adams, Church, Taos Pueblo National Historic Landmark, New Mexico, 1942.

• Enduring Cultures

  • Many pre-Columbian societies were sedentary, such as the Pueblo peoples, Mandan, Hidatsa, and others too numerous to mention, and some established large settlements, even cities, such as Cahokia, in what is now the United States of America.

• The New World

  • For example, 'pueblos indígenas' is a common term in Spanish-speaking countries such as Mexico, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.

• The Sican

  • Such changes have been noted by researchers at sites in Batan Grande, including the Huaca del Pueblo site, dated to around 850-900 CE.