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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2001

For four years, a team from Southern Methodist University has been excavating an historic Pueblo site in New Mexico occupied from about A.D. 1200 to the mid-1400s.

The site is located on private property of a man who bought the 2,000 acres in 1995. Richard Chaves was told there were ruins on the property but he had no idea that there was a large 400 to 600 room Pueblo.

An archaeologist named Frank Hibben knew there was a significant settlement. But he couldn't afford to buy the property himself and the previous owner had threatened to bulldoze the site.

Get the Story:
Land Contains Buried Treasure (The Albuquerque Journal 9/4)