Bandelier National Monument
Bandelier National Monument is located in northern New Mexico.
There are at least 3,000 archaeological sites in the park. The sites were inhabited from the 1200's to the mid-1500's by the Ancestral Pueblo People.
Along the 1.4-mile Pueblo Loop Trail in Frijoles Canyon are a pueblo and kiva as well as numerous cliff and cave dwellings. The cave dwellings were carved into the soft rock.
These are the Tyuonyi Pueblo ruins. The pueblo had over 400 rooms and stood one to two stories tall. About 100 people lived in the pueblo. The ruins are 500 to 700 years old.
Bandelier National Monument
Bandelier National Monument is located in northern New Mexico.
There are at least 3,000 archaeological sites in the park. The sites were inhabited from the 1200's to the mid-1500's by the Ancestral Pueblo People.
Along the 1.4-mile Pueblo Loop Trail in Frijoles Canyon are a pueblo and kiva as well as numerous cliff and cave dwellings. The cave dwellings were carved into the soft rock.
These are the Tyuonyi Pueblo ruins. The pueblo had over 400 rooms and stood one to two stories tall. About 100 people lived in the pueblo. The ruins are 500 to 700 years old.