This week we round out this month's coverage of indigenous Latin America with a look at the Ancestral Puebloans of the American Southwest. We couldn't fit 10,000 years of human experience and complexity into a single episode, so instead we highlight some architectural and engineering achievements, petroglyphs, and some of the mythological beings represented in them. Plus, the origins of the word "adobe" and a lengthy consideration of why the cultural appropriation of Kokopelli looms so large in our memory of the 1990s.

To learn more, check out:

Aztec Ruins National Monument--New Mexico NPS Historical Handbook No. 36, 1962 (Project Gutenberg)

The Chaco Road System - Southwestern America's Ancient Roads (ThoughtCo)

Native Languages of the Americas: Pueblo Legends and Stories (Native-Languages.org)

Hopi Petroglyph Sites (CyArk)

How Kokopelli, the Flute-Playing God, Conquered Pop Culture (Artsy)

Books:

Pueblo Gods and Myths

Kokopelli, Casanova of the Cliff Dwellers

Chaco Handbook: An Encyclopedic Guide

Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society