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Pecos National Historical Park

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Pecos National Historical Park 6,671 acres (2,702 hectares), N New Mexico; est. as a national monument 1965, designated a national historical park 1990. The park contains the remains of the Pecos pueblo, a major trade center strategically located between the Great Plains and the Rio Grande Valley. The Pecos site was excavated from 1915-29 by Alfred V. Kidder and is considered the first major archaeological dig using modern scientific techniques. In 1999 nearly 2,000 skeletons that had been excavated there were returned to the inhabitants of modern Jemez and reburied at Pecos. Two Spanish... Read more
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...population of the Pecos pueblo, 3,000 when...inhabitants of the Pecos pueblo (now part of the Pecos National Historical Park ) moved to Jemez...dig excavated the Pecos pueblo site. In...reburied at the Pecos park. The inhabitants... Read more
New Mexico
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the Rio Grande—the Pecos and the San Juan—are...projects are on the Pecos, and the Tucumcari project...force bases, along with national observatories and the...under federal control as national forests and monuments...the Carlsbad Caverns National Park and the Aztec Ruins ... Read more

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