Puebloans - Chaco Regional System

State · 850–1151 CE · at its largest around 1040 CE

A network of Ancestral Puebloan communities centred on Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, known for multi-storey great houses like Pueblo Bonito and long straight roads.

On its lands while it lasted

Ancestral Puebloans (c. 1,500 BCE – c. 1300 CE): Culture of the Four Corners region that built pueblos and cliff dwellings; ancestors of today's Pueblo peoples, they left the region by about 1300.
Chaco Canyon (c. 850–1150 CE): Ancestral Puebloan ceremonial and trade centre in New Mexico with great houses linked by long straight roads.