Invasive grasshoppers
Pesticide spraying halted quick
New Mexico is saved

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https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-land-managers-call-off-pesticide-spraying-rio-100579779

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By the time of Spanish colonial arrival in #NewMexico (1590 CE) the #RioChama was mostly abandoned. The inhabitants of the large Classic period villages had moved on to other parts of the Pueblo world, in particular the Rio Grande valley and nearby areas such as the Galisteo Basin. They left behind a well-preserved landscape of villages, shrines, and fields.

Pictured are the Classic sites of Sapawe and Ponsipa'akeri.

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The large Classic villages of the #RioChama were part of a larger phenomenon throughout the Pueblo world. Archaeologists refer to this period as Pueblo IV, and it was in this interval from about 1300 CE through the arrival of the Spaniards that the Pueblo societies we know today took shape in terms of settlement, religion, social structure, etc.

Pictured are the Classic sites of Tsama'ouinge and Te'ewi'ouinge.

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The #RioChama is a major tributary of the Rio Grande in Northern #NewMexico. Beginning around 1350 CE (the Classic Period) it experienced major population growth and saw the growth of large nucleated villages of 1000+ rooms. Much of this growth was from immigration. These villages were ancestral to the modern Tewa peoples.

The village of Poshu'ouinge is pictured.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poshuouinge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tewa

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