Indians, Ancient and Modern, in the Albuquerque Country

INTRODUCTION The Albuquerque country has been occupied by Indians more or less continuously for the last 26,000 years as shown by the many campsites, ruins, and modern pueblos found here. This area was in the past, as it is now, an attractive place for man to live and during much of this time it has probably been one of the most densely populated parts of New Mexico. There has been considerable interest in the Indians of this area and, as a result, the literature about them is voluminous and is scattered in many technical and popular journals, books, and magazines. In this paper only some of the more important and interesting high lights of the history of the Indians of the Albuquerque country are summarized. The articles listed in the bibliography contain detailed information and interested readers are referred to them for information in depth. Figure 1 shows the location of the sites and pueblos mentioned in this paper.