State · 850 – 1304

Ancestral Puebloans

A state of 850 – 1304 — 454 years in the Americas and Oceania. It followed Oshara Tradition.

Wikidata records no founding for it; the borders dataset maps it from 850 to 1304, and those are the years drawn here.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 454 years; 850 – 1304
Most ground: 65,000 km²; in 1040

Map: Ancestral Puebloans in 1040, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Ancestral Puebloans in 1040, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 65,000 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Ancestral Puebloans in 850, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Ancestral Puebloans in 1040, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Oshara Tradition · follows

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

21,200 km² in 850, 8,700 km² in 1304; at its largest 65,000 km² in 1050. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood454 years
stood longer than 84% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held65,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 37% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 43% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 805 – 1349, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1040, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q478805 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-07 · Pastlas v2.13.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.