In New Mexico, Visiting Two Links to Native American History

In New Mexico, Visiting Two Links to Native American History

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Bandelier National Monument::
It is near the city of Los Alamos
This places is formed by two explosions of the volcano more than one million years ago.

10000 years ago 
People lived here hunting large animals, and they did't build permanent structure to live in.

7000 years ago
The climate of the Southwest became drier and warmer
many large animals no longer existed , so people hunted smaller animals and gathered wild plants for food.

2500 years ago
First houses appeared in what is now northern New Mexico
Soon after that more permanent houses were built above ground. These early homes were made of a mixture of wet dirt, wood and rocks
They grows crops of corn, beans and squash(南瓜).
agriculture begains!!!

800 years ago
They began living together in larger groups , because more people move into this area.
No written record of the area exists until after the Spanish arrived in fifteen forty.

1.Village
Life style:
They spent much of their time outside.
They used their rooms for sleeping and keeping food. 
Both men and women grew crops.
The women ground corn for bread, cooked and made pottery. The men built new rooms, hunted animals for food, and wove cloth. Children played games and took care of small animals.

2.Caves
Tuff is made of ash from the explosions of the Jemez volcano. After thousands of years the ash became a soft rock. Through the years rain and wind made cracks and openings in it. The ancestral Pueblo people used stone tools to widen the small natural openings in the face of the canyon walls.


Taos Pueblo ::
altitude is very high  -- about two thousand two hundred meters.
They were finished almost six hundred years ago.

Nowaday, almost two thousand Taos Indians live nearby on land . They live in modern houses with electricity and running water. During the year they return to the Pueblo to take part in the many ceremonies and dances that are held in the ancient plazas.