Cultural sphere · approximate900 CE – 1150 · 250 years
Chaco Phenomenon
Overview
Chaco Culture National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park in the American Southwest hosting a large concentration of pre-Columbian indigenous ruins of pueblos. The park is in northwestern New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington, in a remote canyon cut by the Chaco Wash. Containing the most sweeping collection of ancient ruins north of Mexico, the park preserves one of the most important cultural and historical areas in the United States.
Wikipedia: Chaco Culture National Historical Park·CC BY-SA 4.0
Borders & accuracy
An archaeological culture; extent is defined by where its material remains have been found rather than by political control.
- SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
- DETAILhand-crafted-from-atlases
- SNAPSHOT1050
- POLITY TYPEculture
Also during this period
No conflict record yet names this polity as a belligerent; these overlap its dates only.
- Reconquista722 CE–1492World-changing · 1.0M dead
- First Crusade1096–99World-changing · 100K dead
- Norman Conquest of England1066–71World-changing · 20K dead
- World-changing · 10K dead
- World-changing
- World-changing
Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 900 CE and fits the map to these borders.
Cite as: Chaco Phenomenon (900 CE – 1150). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/americas-ancestral-puebloan-chaco · Sources & methodology