Members of Picuris Pueblo, an Indigenous American tribe based near Taos, New Mexico, knew they were connected to ancient settlements at Chaco Canyon, 275 kilometres to the west. Picuris oral ...

In that view, ancestors of Picuris and other Pueblo tribes arrived in the Four Corners region later. The new study undermines this idea. Patterns of inherited gene variants among ancient Picuris ...

The elders of the Picuris Pueblo nation, a 300-person tribe in Northern New Mexico, have passed down their history for centuries. They trace ancestral connections to the famed complex of sandstone ...

along with DNA newly obtained from 13 present-day members of the Picuris Pueblo tribe and from tooth and bone remains excavated in the 1960s of 16 people who lived at the tribe's home site 500 to ...

“I think the vision that we have is to make it better than we got it.” Santa Ana Pueblo is just the latest tribe to acquire jurisdiction over ancestral lands as part of a growing movement in ...

Researchers examined data on ancient DNA previously obtained from human remains at Pueblo Bonito, along with DNA newly obtained from 13 present-day members of the Picuris Pueblo tribe and from ...

WASHINGTON : 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 this ...

For the study, researchers sequenced the DNA of 13 present-day members of the tribe. They compared that genetic material to DNA from 16 Picuris Pueblo individuals who lived between 500 and 700 ...