Puebloan Native History; What Happened When

Aug 1

Written By Kat Fox

All dates are AD, or, if you prefer the newer abbreviation, CE.

1-900

Basketmaker - Pueblo I

Baskets and pottery, trade (shells), cotton cloth

900-1300

Pueblo I - Pueblo III

Baskets and advanced pottery, Manos and Metates, bow and arrows, widespread trade (Macaws), roads

1055-1094

Height of Chaco Culture

Journeys to Chimney Rock

1057, 1076, 1094

Lunar standstills

1066

Battle of Hastings

Halley’s Comet

1076

Partial solar eclipse

1097

Solar eclipse

1250-1300

Climate change

Chacoans probably moved to the Rio Grande Valley

1540’s

Spaniards explored New Mexico

1620

Pilgrims landed

1896

One of the first excavations of Chaco ruins

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