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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 ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 12:24, 24 May 2018: 2,000 × 1,462 (1.95 MB): Slowking4 {{Information |Title = Pueblo Bonito Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico |Artist = De Lancey Gill |Date = 1888 |Dimensions = sight 19 1/4 x 28 1/4 in. (48.9 x 71.8 cm) |institution = Smithsonian American Art Museum |credit line = Museum acquisition |wikidata = Q20488863 |Medium = watercolor ...
Pueblo Bonito, largest of the great houses, abuts the foot of Chaco Canyon's northern rim. Aerial view of Pueblo Bonito. Casa Rinconada, isolated from the other central sites, sits to the south side of Chaco Wash, adjacent to a Chacoan road leading to a set of steep stairs that reached the top of Chacra Mesa. Its sole kiva stands alone, with no ...
Wetherill and his wife Marietta are buried in the small cemetery west of Pueblo Bonito along with several Navajos. The cemetery lies just over a hundred meters west of Bonito behind a wooden fence. Richard Wetherill's heirs donated a large collection of artifacts to the University of New Mexico in 1954.
Pueblo Bonito, in Chaco Canyon. A great house is a large, multi-storied Ancestral Puebloan structure; they were built between 850 and 1150. Whereas the term "great house" typically refers to structures in Chaco Canyon, they are also found in more northerly locations in the San Juan Basin, including the Mesa Verde region. The purpose of the ...
Casa Rinconada is an Ancestral Puebloan archaeological site located atop a ridge adjacent to a small rincon across from Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, northwestern New Mexico, United States. The Ancestral Puebloan great kiva, Casa Rinconada.
Pueblo del Arroyo is an Ancestral Puebloan great house and archaeological site located in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, in New Mexico, United States. [ 1 ] The construction of Pueblo del Arroyo, located a few hundred yards from Pueblo Bonito , near Chaco Wash , began c. 1060 AD and continued for approximately thirty years.
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