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Buried under a thousand years’ worth of sand and stone, Blue J is an ancient Puebloan settlement in New Mexico, which is only just beginning to reveal its secrets. For more than four decades, archaeologists have been gradually revealing the remains of houses, plazas and other buildings in a construction dating back to the 11 th century. But thanks to advancing technology, new information about the settlement has just been brought to light, revealing that the settlement was much larger and more influential than previously thought. The Ancient Pueblo peoples or Ancestral Pueblo peoples were an ancient Native American culture who inhabited southern Utah, north-eastern Arizona, northern New Mexico, and south-western Colorado. They lived in a range of structures, including