THE MYSTERY OF THE AZTEC
The Aztec Ruin was declared as a National Monument in 1923.
exploration of the Aztec Ruins. About 950 years ago, Pueblo people made a new village in River Valley and on the Mesa. They gathered materials to build the ruin like the structure in Chaco Canyon. It gives us information about the history of the of life of the ancestral Pueblo people in the four corners region. It’s a misnomer that the ancient Pueblo people were called “AzThis summer, I had the opportunity to visit the Aztec Ruins Natec”. They were mistaken as the “Aztec civilization”, while they were tional Monument. It is an Ancestral Puebloan in Northwest, New Mexico, near the Animas River. My family and I went on the trail to the original pueblo people. Could they have come from Mexico? the Aztec Ruins, and we stopped at special sites to visit rooms of the Excavations show that they were well-versed in hunting, farming, and pottery making. The Mancos Black-on-White bowl was made Aztec Ruin. The exploration was a journey to the past at the Aztec at the Middle and Northern San Juan regions between 1000 and Ruins. 1150 AD. The Great Kiva was an area of religious and social cereHistory says that in 1916, Earl Morris led a major archeological
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