It should be no surprise that Chaco pottery was also unique and beautiful in its design, function and quality. Plain, clay cooking pots first appeared at Chaco around 450 to 500 A.D. More durable ...

The pottery was found during excavations of ancient households in Chaco Canyon, like the one above. Photograph by John Kantner Though reasons why men would have gotten more involved in ceramics ...

These chocolate-drinking jars are living proof of a dynamic pottery-making tradition that continues in descendant tribes of the Chaco Canyon Puebloans today. Abigail Eisenstadt When an ...

But a new study of pottery at Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico, the center of early Ancestral Pueblo culture 800 to 1,200 years ago, shows men and women were getting their hands dirty at ...

Human head from an effigy pottery vessel, found at Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico. Picture: Alamy The research paper, which was published in journal Nature ...

By reviewing archaeological records, the team found other materials coming to Chaco from the Chuskas at the same time. "There's pottery and there's chipped-stone tools--things like projectile ...