# National Park Service n.d.: Chaco Brief History > Chaco Culture National Historical Park National Park Service, n.d.. 13 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The official baseline chronology and the… Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D9KT25Y7TW6/chaco-brief-history Publisher: Mysteries Department Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page) --- [Sources](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources)[Great houses of Chaco Canyon](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon)National Park Service n.d. **0** # Chaco Brief History Chaco Culture National Historical Park National Park Service, n.d.. _nps.gov_. The park's short official history: the AD 850 to 1150 florescence, the end of great-house building and migration between 1150 and 1250, the descendant Pueblo and Hopi communities and the Navajo association, the excavation history (Judd 1921 to 1927, the 1941 rockfall at Pueblo Bonito), and the 1907, 1980 and 1987 designations. **Great houses of Chaco Canyon** ReportChecked against the original0 ## What it's used for here The official baseline chronology and the statement of descendant communities. ## The document 4 pages [Pages][Text]Page 1 of 4 [![Page 1](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/v/02e5746b8f787746b9c78a8b3d4f2b49083f1cf00ca32ac5a6d41a1e8dba4ae5/p1)1][![Page 2](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/v/02e5746b8f787746b9c78a8b3d4f2b49083f1cf00ca32ac5a6d41a1e8dba4ae5/p2)2][![Page 3](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/v/02e5746b8f787746b9c78a8b3d4f2b49083f1cf00ca32ac5a6d41a1e8dba4ae5/p3)3][![Page 4](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/v/02e5746b8f787746b9c78a8b3d4f2b49083f1cf00ca32ac5a6d41a1e8dba4ae5/p4)4] ![Page 1 of Chaco Brief History](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/v/02e5746b8f787746b9c78a8b3d4f2b49083f1cf00ca32ac5a6d41a1e8dba4ae5/p1) Text taken from the file. Check it against the page. ## Cited by on this site 13 records [People chose to move as part of a long Puebloan pattern of migration, carrying their institutions to new…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/answers/ANS0D9KV8RA0Q26/people-chose-to-move-as-part-of-a-long-puebloan-pattern-of) Answer ANS [Pueblo Bonito](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/artifacts/ART0D9KVBE84NBE/pueblo-bonito) ART [NPS research of the 1970s and 1980s sharply reduced earlier great-house population figures.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/evidence/EVD0D9KTZ7M7409/nps-research-of-the-1970s-and-1980s-sharply-reduced-earlier) Evidence EVD [The Pueblo peoples of New Mexico and the Hopi maintain connections with Chaco as an ancestral place.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/evidence/EVD0D9KV97Y6GF7/the-pueblo-peoples-of-new-mexico-and-the-hopi-maintain) Evidence EVD [Chaco Canyon National Monument is proclaimed](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/events/EVT0D9KTNPY70E0/chaco-canyon-national-monument-is-proclaimed) EVT [Chaco Culture National Historical Park is created](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/events/EVT0D9KTPEC08G6/chaco-culture-national-historical-park-is-created) EVT [Chaco Culture is inscribed as a World Heritage Site](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/events/EVT0D9KTPP64Z7G/chaco-culture-is-inscribed-as-a-world-heritage-site) EVT [Great-house building ends and people migrate from the canyon](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/events/EVT0D9KTN7A0S3Y/great-house-building-ends-and-people-migrate-from-the-canyon) EVT [Neil Judd excavates several hundred rooms at Pueblo Bonito](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/events/EVT0D9KTNYR07RF/neil-judd-excavates-several-hundred-rooms-at-pueblo-bonito) EVT [Neil M. Judd](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/people/FIG0D9KTFVE64YH/neil-m-judd) FIG [The great houses of Chaco Canyon](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon) The mystery article MYS [National Park Service](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/organisations/ORG0D9KTJ1R3NED/national-park-service) ORG [Why did building at Chaco stop and its people leave?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/questions/QST0D9KTTK62C6X/why-did-building-at-chaco-stop-and-its-people-leave) Question QST ## Cite it ``` National Park Service, C. C. N. H. P. (n.d.). Chaco Brief History. nps.gov. https://www.nps.gov/chcu/learn/upload/Chaco-Brief-History.pdf ``` [Read it free at nps.gov](https://www.nps.gov/chcu/learn/upload/Chaco-Brief-History.pdf)[Download PDF · 336 KB](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/d/02e5746b8f787746b9c78a8b3d4f2b49083f1cf00ca32ac5a6d41a1e8dba4ae5) Anyone can read it here; members can download it. Key **SRC** 0D9KT25Y7TW6 Kind Report Rights public-domain Kept 27 Oct 2026 Checked Against the published original Added by [apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo) The record Bibliographic records are CC0. Take this one as CSL-JSON, BibTeX or RIS. [CSL-JSON](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D9KT25Y7TW6/chaco-brief-history/csl.json)