Taos Pueblo is one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in North America. At least 1000 years old, it had structures five and six stories high prior to the earliest brush of colonial impact from the Spaniards.

What stability of surroundings would lead a people to be so firmly established for so very long, with no risk of running short of food or resources? Especially in a...

Rethinking Taos New Mexico, the Rio Grande, the impacts of earthquakes, and the ancient lakes of North America