What makes Chaco so special? @ArchaeologySouthwest
What makes Chaco so special?  @ArchaeologySouthwest
Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 51 minutes ago
For more than 700 years, ancestral Pueblo people built, farmed, raised families, and shaped a thriving community at what is now Chaco Culture National Historical Park. Massive multi-story great houses like Pueblo Bonito and Chetro Ketl were part of a living landscape of hundreds of small pueblos, fields of corn, beans, and squash, and complex social connections.

Chaco wasn’t just architecture. It was a community.

Listen as Paul Reed shares why this place continues to matter.

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