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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 ...
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 ...
One of the 12 pueblos of Tiwa Indians along both sides of the Rio Grande, north and south of present-day Bernalillo Pueblo Alto: Ancestral Puebloan Crownpoint: Great House "High Town". Ruins located in the Chaco Culture National Historical Park. Sits adjacent to New Alto and Rabbit Ruins. Pueblo Bonito: Ancestral Puebloan Crownpoint: Great House
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 ...
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.
The largest of these villages, Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, contained around 700 rooms in five stories; it may have housed as many as 1000 persons. [12] Pueblo buildings are constructed as complex apartments with numerous rooms, often built in strategic defensive positions.
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.
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.