Chacoan and other structures constructed originally along astronomical alignments, and thought to have served important ceremonial purposes to the culture, were systematically dismantled.

The Chacoan peccary produces a milky, odorous substance that is used for marking trees, shrubs and similar.

In Chaco Canyon, Chacoan developers quarried sandstone blocks and hauled timber from great distances, assembling 15 major complexes which remained the largest buildings in North America until the 19th century.

A further suggestion is that the widespread use of timber in Chacoan constructions — a resource not locally available — needed a large and easy transportation system.

The Chacoan peccary has the unusual distinction of having been first described based on fossils and was originally thought to be only an extinct species.

Chacoan flora typifies that of North American high deserts: sagebrush and several species of cactus are interspersed with dry scrub forests of piñon and juniper, the latter primarily on the mesa tops.

The Chacoan peccary has the unusual distinction of having been first described in 1930 based on fossils and was originally thought to be an extinct species.

When the Chacoan peccary is nervous or frightened it flees, while raising the hairs on its back.

The Chacoan peccary uses its tough snout to roll the cacti on the ground, rubbing the spines off.

Pueblo Bonito, the largest of the Chacoan Great Houses, stands at the foot of Chaco Culture National Historical Park | Chaco Canyon's northern rim.

Through analysis of various strontium isotopes, archaeologists have realized that much of the timber that composes Chacoan construction came from a number of distant mountain ranges, indicative also of the Chaco Road's economic significance.

* Chacoan Peccary ( Catagonus wagneri ), known to scientists only from fossils before its discovery in 1975.

Chacoan peccaries have received the nickname " pigs from green hell " because of their wild, impenetrable habitats.

The Chacoan peccary differs from its fellow peccary species by having longer ears, snout, and tail.

While escaping, the Chacoan peccary sprays secretions from their dorsal glands.

The Chacoan peccary gains essential minerals like calcium, magnesium, and chlorine from the salt licks.

The Chacoan Peccary can be brought from Paraguay to North America, to replace the extinct Flat-headed Peccary

Chacoan peccaries often travel in herds of up to twenty individuals.

Many Chacoan buildings may have been aligned to capture the solar and lunar cycles, requiring generations of astronomical observations and centuries of skillfully coordinated construction.

T-shaped doorways and stone lintels marked all Chacoan kivas.

Over 100 individuals have been recorded for a single herd of white-lipped peccaries, but collared and Chacoan peccaries usually form smaller groups.

The third species, the Chacoan peccary ( Catagonus wagneri ), is the closest living relative to the extinct Platygonus pearcei.

In the 10th century, the Chacoan people constructed large, multi-room dwellings, some comprising more than 900 rooms, in the Chaco Canyon area of what is now northwest New Mexico.

* Peregrine, Peter N. " Matrilocality, Corporate Strategy, and the Organization of Production in the Chacoan World.

In 2007, Beardsley Zoo became the first zoo in the Northeast to exhibit the Chacoan Peccary.

In October 2011, it became the first zoo in the Northeast to have a baby Chacoan Peccary.

# Hoofstock-features Andean condors, three species of wolf ( gray, red, and maned ), Chacoan peccaries, prairie dogs, bison, Pronghorns, a Llama, a turkey vulture, and a Barred Owl.

* A Civilian Conservation Corps of Navajo stonemasons repairs Chacoan buildings in Chaco Canyon.

Cranwell's horned frog ( Ceratophrys cranwelli ), also called the Chacoan horned frog, is a terrestrial frog endemic to the dry Gran Chaco region of Argentina.

The magnitude of this building project, without an apparent utilitarian purpose, indicates that Fajada Butte may have had considerable ceremonial importance for the Chacoan people.

Many Chacoan buildings may have been aligned to capture the solar and lunar cycles, requiring generations of astronomical observations and centuries of skillfully coordinated construction.

Composing a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the arid and sparsely populated Four Corners region, the Chacoan cultural sites are fragile ; fears of erosion caused by tourists have led to the closure of Fajada Butte to the public.

Though park preservation efforts can conflict with native religious beliefs, tribal representatives work closely with the National Park Service to share their knowledge and respect the heritage of the Chacoan culture.

The principal Chacoan complexes, such as Pueblo Bonito, Nuevo Alto, and Kin Kletso, have elevations of.

Another difference between native and non-native Hausa is the omission of vowel length in words and change in the standard tone of native Hausa dialects ( ranging from native Fulani and Tuareg Hausa-speakers omitting tone altogether, to Hausa speakers with Gur or Yoruba mother tongues using additional tonal structures similar to those used in their native languages ).

The blocks sometimes have grooves or other surface features added to enhance this interlocking, and some dry set masonry structures forgo mortar altogether.

Avant-garde in music can refer to any form of music working within traditional structures while seeking to breach boundaries in some manner, or to describe the work of any musicians who radically depart from tradition altogether.

In one group, the astomes, the mouth and associated structures have been lost altogether.

It has been variously suggested that the interpretation of a sentence is determined by its deep structure alone, by a combination of its deep and surface structures, or by some other level of representation altogether ( logical form ), as argued in 1977 by Chomsky's student Robert May.

Food subsidies were maintained at high wartime levels in order to restrain living costs, while taxation structures were altered to benefit low-wage earners, with some 2. 5 million workers taken out of the tax system altogether in Dalton ’ s first two budgets.

Once this was fully understood wing structures were made progressively more rigid, precluding wing warping altogether – and aircraft became far more controllable in the lateral plane.

While on the outskirts of the city altogether new housing estates appear, in the heartland of Favoriten older buildings are successively being replaced by newer, bigger structures.