Petroglyphs above Una Vida Great House, Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico, USA.

Petroglyphs above Una Vida, in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico, USA. Una Vida is a Chacoan great house (monumental public building) with 100 rooms and kivas plus a great kiva enclosed in a plaza, built starting around AD 850 for over 250 years. Chaco Culture National Historical Park hosts the densest and most exceptional concentration of pueblos in the American Southwest and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Chaco Canyon is in remote northwestern New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington, USA. From 850 AD to 1250 AD, Chaco Canyon advanced then declined as a major center of culture for the Ancient Pueblo Peoples. Chacoans quarried sandstone blocks and hauled timber from great distances, assembling fifteen major complexes that remained the largest buildings in North America until the 1800s. Climate change may have led to its abandonment, beginning with a 50-year drought starting in 1130.

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Petroglyphs above Una Vida, in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico, USA. Una Vida is a Chacoan great house (monumental public building) with 100 rooms and kivas plus a great kiva enclosed in a plaza, built starting around AD 850 for over 250 years. Chaco Culture National Historical Park hosts the densest and most exceptional concentration of pueblos in the American Southwest and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Chaco Canyon is in remote northwestern New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington, USA. From 850 AD to 1250 AD, Chaco Canyon advanced then declined as a major center of culture for the Ancient Pueblo Peoples. Chacoans quarried sandstone blocks and hauled timber from great distances, assembling fifteen major complexes that remained the largest buildings in North America until the 1800s. Climate change may have led to its abandonment, beginning with a 50-year drought starting in 1130.