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Dwellings of the Pueblo peoples in New Mexico's Salinas Basin. The dwellings of the Pueblo peoples are located throughout the American Southwest and north central Mexico. The American states of New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona all have evidence of Pueblo peoples' dwellings; the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora do as ...
Grand house Ruins located at the Navajo National Monument: Kiet Siel: Ancestral Pueblo Kayenta: Navajo Reservation: Grand house Ruins located at the Navajo National Monument. Kinishba: Mogollon Whiteriver: Great house Ruins. Including more than 600 rooms, this great house is a National Historic Landmark located on the Fort Apache Indian ...
Great house An active pueblo that is home of one of the 21 federally recognized Pueblos. Pilabó: Tiwa Socorro Great house Ruins. Once the home of the Piro Pueblo, located at the site of the present town of the city of Socorro. Poblazon: Bernalillo Ruins. Pojoaque: Tewa Great house An active pueblo that is home of one of the 21 federally ...
Ancestral Puebloan people first began building pueblo structures during the Pueblo I Period (750–900 CE). When Spanish colonists arrived in the Southwest beginning in the late 1500s, they learned the local construction techniques from the Pueblo people and adapted them to fit their own building types, such as haciendas and mission churches. [1]
Great house Ruins. Escalante Pueblo was constructed approximately 1120 to 1130 and made of groupings of stone walled family and communal rooms, including kivas. The architecture is like that of the Chaco Canyon in present-day New Mexico. [18] The pueblo was also occupied about 1150 and again 1200. [19] Dominguez: Anasazi Pueblo II, Pueblo III ...
House on Fire: Cliff dwelling Ruins. Fallen Roof: Cliff dwelling Ruins. Butler Canyon ruins: Cliff dwelling Ruins. Coombs site: Boulder: Great house Ruins. Located at the Anasazi State Park Museum. Defiance House: Anasazi Bullfrog: Located in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area at Lake Powell.
Pueblo Bonito is the largest great house in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Examination of pack rat middens revealed that at the time that Pueblo Bonito was built, Chaco Canyon and the surrounding areas were wooded by trees such as ponderosa pines. Evidence of such trees can be seen within the structure of Pueblo Bonito, such as the first-floor ...
The Puye Cliff Dwellings are the ruins of an abandoned pueblo, located in Santa Clara Canyon on Santa Clara Pueblo Reservation land near Española, New Mexico.Established in the late 1200s or early 1300s and abandoned by about 1600, this is among the largest of the prehistoric Indian settlements on the Pajarito Plateau, showing a variety of architectural forms and building techniques.