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Team Discovers Ancestral Puebloans Survived Ice Melt in Lava Tube

For more than 10,000 years, the people who lived on the arid landscape of modern-day western New Mexico were renowned for their complex societies, unique architecture, and early economic and political systems. But surviving in what Spanish explorers would later name El Malpais, or the “badlands,” required ingenuity now being explained for the first time ...

Troy Oakes

A large lave tube.