For the study, researchers sequenced the DNA of 13 present-day members of the tribe. They compared that genetic material to ...

"No other sampled population, ancient or present-day, is more closely related to Ancestral Puebloans from Pueblo Bonito [in Chaco Canyon] than the Picuris individuals are," the paper concludes.

Kivas, round underground ceremonial spaces, dot Pueblo Bonito and other sites in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico.(Paul Ross / ...

WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) - (This April 30 story has been corrected to fix the direction to east, not west, in paragraph 8) DNA obtained from the remains of people who inhabited Pueblo Bonito ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - DNA obtained from the remains of people who inhabited Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon a millennium ago is helping to link present-day members of a Pueblo tribe to ...

“Room 33 – Chaco Canyon’s Room With A View Into the ... with DNA taken from human remains found within Room 33 in Pueblo Bonito, which was first excavated in the late 1800s.

(Thomaz Pinotti via AP) FILE - Pueblo Bonito, the largest archeological ... traditions that link the tribe to the region of Chaco Canyon, one of the ancient centers of Pueblo culture and society.

In our data set, the latter group was represented by individuals buried in ‘Room 33’ in Chaco Canyon’s Pueblo Bonito structure who were previously 2 classified as culturally unaffiliated.