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Pueblo Bonito (Spanish for beautiful town) is the largest and best-known great house in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, northern New Mexico. It was built by the Ancestral Puebloans who occupied the structure between AD 828 and 1126.
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 ...
Chetro Ketl is an Ancestral Puebloan great house and archeological site located in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico, United States.Construction on Chetro Ketl began c. 990 and was largely complete by 1075, with significant remodeling occurring in the early and mid-1110s.
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.
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. In 1896, Wetherill, and the Hyde Exploring Expedition (HEE) undertook massive excavation operations in Chaco Canyon on the Navajo Reservation under the oversight of the American Museum of Natural History. George Pepper, a 23-year old employee of the Museum who had never been in New Mexico, was appointed to lead ...
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, 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.