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.

• Photography in the Latter 20th Century

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

• The New World

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