The plan will reduce Sandia’s workforce of nearly 17,000 by between 1% and 3%, which would represent 170 to 510 workers. The ...

In a quiet corner of eastern China, nestled between the Tai-Yi Mountains and the Bohai Sea, a discovery has upended ...

Join local geology and archaeology enthusiast David Bouquet for a free public lecture, “Rock Art in the Southwest,” on Wednesday, June 25, in the Community United Methodist Church fellowship hall, 434 ...

But challenges to the preservation of these ancient cities remain. Mining and drilling for oil and gas threatens the delicate Ancient Puebloan sites in New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon, which led to ...

In a new letter to U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, New Mexico’s congressional delegation chastised federal efforts to revoke a 10-mile buffer zone for oil and gas development around Chaco ...

In 2023, when the Department of the Interior finalized Public Land Order 7923, withdrawing federal lands surrounding Chaco Canyon from future federal mineral leasing for 20 years, many of us ...

NEW MEXICO DNA confirms tribe’s link to Chaco Canyon. For the first time, a federally recognized Indigenous tribe in the U.S. has led research using DNA to show their ancestral history.

For example, for a 2017 paper, scientists sequenced DNA from remains found in Chaco Canyon without consulting Native American groups with ties to the site. But the new study was guided by tribal ...

The findings, published April 30 in the journal Nature, show close links between the genomes of 13 current citizens of Picuris and ancient DNA recovered from 16 Picuris individuals who lived ...

The findings show close links between the genomes of 13 current members of Picuris and ancient DNA recovered from 16 Picuris individuals who lived between 1300 A.D. and 1500 A.D. in or near Chaco ...

For the first time, a tribe in the U.S. has led research using DNA to show their ancestral connection to Chaco Canyon, one of the ancient centers of Pueblo culture and society.