New Mexico Archive

Remarkable Discovery – 22,000-Year-Old Drag-Marks In New Mexico Are The Earliest Evidence Of Transport Vehicles Ever Found!

AncientPages.com | February 24, 2025

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have uncovered preliminary evidence of transport technology utilized by the earliest known settlers in the USA, dating back over twenty thousand years.

Young Boy Finds Baffling Artifacts In New Mexico Predating The Anasazi, The ‘Ancient Ones’

AncientPages.com | August 6, 2024

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Discovering unusual artifacts in New Mexico highlights children's unique perspective on archaeological finds. A young explorer uncovered two intriguing objects while investigating ancient

Archaeology

Oldest Fossil Human Footprints In North America Confirmed

AncientPages.com | October 6, 2023

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New research reaffirms that human footprints found in White Sands National Park, NM, date to the Last Glacial Maximum, placing humans in North

There Is A Problem With Footprints Claimed As Evidence Of Ice Age Humans In North America - Scientists Say

Archaeology

There Is A Problem With The Footprints Claimed As Evidence Of Ice Age Humans In North America – Scientists Say

AncientPages.com | November 16, 2022

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The wide expanse of an ancient lakebed in New Mexico holds the preserved footprints of life that roamed millennia ago. Giant sloths and

New Mexico Mammoths Offers Evidence Of Early Humans In North America Much Earlier Than Previously Thought

Archaeology

New Mexico Mammoths Offer Evidence Of Early Humans In North America Much Earlier Than Previously Thought

AncientPages.com | August 1, 2022

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A recent study by scientists from the University of Texas at Austin finds that a site in New Mexico offers some of the

Mimbres bowl from Maxwell collection. Credit: University of New Mexico

Archaeology

What Happened To Mimbres People – Recently Examined Puzzle Gives Some Clues

AncientPages.com | December 29, 2021

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - For the past century, Southwestern archaeologists have debated what happened to the Mimbres people of southwestern New Mexico after AD 1150, a group

Archaeology

Ancestral Puebloans Survived Devastating Climate Change Hiding In New Mexico Lava Tubes

AncientPages.com | November 20, 2020

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have studied five drought periods over an 800-year period during which Ancestral Puebloans had to fight for their survival, and they succeeded.

News

Ponderosa Pine: Life And Death Of One Of America’s Most Mysterious Trees

AncientPages.com | March 18, 2020

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The iconic Plaza Tree of Pueblo Bonito is widely believed to have been a majestic pine standing in the west courtyard of the

Chaco Canyon’s Piedra del Sol Petroglyph Depicts Ancient Total Eclipse Visible In The Year 1097

Archaeology

Chaco Canyon’s Piedra del Sol Petroglyph Depicts An Ancient Total Eclipse Visible In The Year 1097

AncientPages.com | August 12, 2017

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - There are many fascinating ancient petroglyphs in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Among them is one that researchers think represents an ancient total eclipse

Ancient Chinese script petroglyphs in the Petroglyph National Monument. Image credit: John A. Ruskamp

Civilizations

Controversial Evidence – Ancient Chinese Visited America 2,500 Years Ago

AncientPages.com | March 9, 2015

AncientPages.com - Examination of rock carvings in Arizona and New Mexico, has led scientists to the conclusion that "Chinese explorers not only reached the Americas in pre-Columbian times, but