The Ancestral Puebloans (also known of as the Ancient Pueblo or Anasazi) were the native inhabitants of the Four Corners area of the southwestern United States for over a thousand years. The Ancestral Puebloans were farmers who supplemented their primary crops of corn, squash, and eventually beans with the wild plants and game indigenous to the Four Corners. They lived first in wood and adobe pithouses and then, as time passed, in stone masonry surface structures called pueblos.

The Ancestral Puebloan culture left amazing archaeological remains. From small, broken pieces of pottery to impressive standing architecture. Pueblo culture lives on today not just in archaeological remnants, but through the traditions and practices of the modern Pueblo groups in New Mexico and Arizona.