Ancestral Puebloans

ancient Native American culture in Four Corners region of the United States

6 dated entries naming Ancestral Puebloans, drawn from 6 separate years between 1200 BCE and 1300 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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12th century BC

1200 BCEc. 1200 BC: Ancestral Puebloan civilization in North America. (approximate date)source

8th century

750Native Americans, in the area now known as the Four Corners, begin constructing and occupying pueblos.source

10th century

919The Ancestral Puebloans, living in the Four Corners, begin construction at Pueblo Bonito, in modern-day New Mexico's Chaco Canyon (approximate date).source

11th century

1100The Ancestral Puebloans culture, located in the modern-day Four Corners (United States), rises (approximate date).source

13th century

1276A severe 23-year drought begins to affect the Grand Canyon area, eventually forcing the agriculture-dependent Puebloans (or Anasazi) to migrate out of the region.source
1300In "Oasisamerica", the modern-day southwestern United States, the Ancestral Puebloans abandon the Mesa Verde region in the Colorado Plateau.source