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THE pueblo of Acoma, in Western Central New Mexico, is the oldest settlement within the limits of the United States. Many of the walls that still stand on that beetling peñol were seen by Coronado during his marvellous journey in 1540, and even then they were centuries old.
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An Enchanted Mesa1. Nature 57, 450–451 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057450a0
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