Pueblo Bonito
How did Ancestral Puebloans, working without draft animals, the wheel, or metal tools, plan and raise a roughly 800-room, four-to-five-story great house — and haul in tens of thousands of conifer logs from mountains up to 70 miles away — and what, precisely, was Pueblo Bonito for?
c. 850-1150 CE (Ancestral Puebloan) · Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico, United StatesAdded July 2026