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National Geographic Who were the 14 people buried in the tiny tomb known as Room 33? The question has eluded answer for more than a century—but new clues are arising.

Western Digs New DNA evidence from the richest burials in the Southwest shows that elite leaders of New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon weren’t just members of the same class — they were members of the same extended family, a “dynasty” that traced its ancestry to Read more ... a single woman.

Western Digs A new study of the human remains found in Chaco Canyon’s most ornate graves has found that Chaco’s elites were born and raised in and around the canyon, and weren’t migrants from other regions, as many expected. Read on to learn more, and disco Read more ... ver other surprising finds that the remains revealed.

Give A Shit About Nature

Western Digs Experts are at odds over a simple, central question in Southwestern history: How did people in New Mexico’s arid Chaco Canyon manage to grow their food? According to new research, they didn’t. Learn about this latest salvo fired in the ongoing de Read more ... bate over the Southwest's great pre-contact city.

National Geographic South America’s Gran Chaco is one of the planet’s largest unknown wilderness areas. See how local communities are protecting their land. #ExplorerMoments

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National Geographic About a thousand years ago, the Pueblo people of Chaco Canyon decorated their walls with six-digit footprints and sandal-shaped art.

AP Images Dozens of caimans are on the verge of death because of a harsh drought that has hit a wide desert zone of Paraguay known as the Chaco Boreal: http://apne.ws/292FNSW