Eight hundred years ago in the American Southwest, a group of indigenous peoples almost literally carved out a home in rock walls of the mesas and canyons. The Anasazi Indians built villages in seemingly inaccessible alcoves of cliff walls. The...

Ancient Pueblo People or Ancestral Puebloans were a prehistoric Native American culture centered around the present-day Four Corners area of the Southwest United States, noted for their distinctive pottery and dwelling construction styles. The cultural...

In her kitchen near the plaza at San Ildefonso Pueblo, Carmelita Dunlap polishes a small pottery bowl with a smooth stone, while her daughter Linda, who is also a potter, cooks dinner. On a shelf, other red clay pots made by family members...

Byline: Dave Peters; Staff Writer I was shuffling among tangles of mesquite brush, eyes searching the desert gravel at my feet. Nearby, others were similarly intent, heads bent, wandering around a small hill in southwestern New Mexico amid the barest outlines...