Pueblo
(proper noun)
Modern and ancient communities of Native Americans in the Southwestern United States of America.
Examples of Pueblo in the following topics:
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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.
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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.
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Photography in the Latter 20th Century
- Ansel Adams, Church, Taos Pueblo National Historic Landmark, New Mexico, 1942.
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The New World
- For example, 'pueblos indígenas' is a common term in Spanish-speaking countries such as Mexico, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.