Figure 1
From: Climatic backdrop for Pueblo cultural development in the southwestern United States
The Hohokam, Anasazi, and Mogollon cultures represent generalized ancestral pueblo cultures of southwestern North America as commonly depicted in the literature14,15,16. Hidden Cave and Carlsbad Cavern are in the eastern Mogollon region. Major pueblo complexes of these regions are Casa Grande Ruins (CGR) and Canyon de Chelly (CdC) in Arizona, Casas Grande (CG) in northern Mexico, Mesa Verde (MV) in Colorado, and Chaco Canyon (CC), Grand Quivera (GQ), and Gila Cliff Dwellings (GCD) in New Mexico. Smaller pueblo sites closest to Hidden Cave are pueblos in the Hueco Bolson (HB) in west Texas, and Madera Quemada pueblo (MQ), and pueblos near the Capitan Mountains (CP) in southern central New Mexico. Google Earth was used to construct state borders (http://www.google.com/earth/index.html).
