Found in New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon is the Pueblo Bonito (Beautiful Town). This town was founded 1,000 years ago by the Ancestral Puebloans who dwelled here for centuries. Eventually, after a long time of staying in this place, the Ancestral Puebloans finally left about 1126 CE.
When they departed, the villagers left behind a wondrous legacy of massive structures that once stood up to five storeys high, filled with hundreds of rooms, and cultural artefacts, including pottery, musical instruments, and tools for use in ancient rituals.
Aside from these magnificent structures and amazing stuff that they abandoned, the Ancestral Puebloans also left this thing behind. This thing was a log of a ponderosa pine, which measured twenty feet long. This lone log had the archaeologists puzzled when they discovered it in 1924.
What was this log for? Scientists of today have some theories about this lone log. Check it out over at Science Alert.
(Image Credit: National Park Service/ Science Alert)
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