The Great Houses of Chaco John Martin Campbell

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Author: John Martin Campbell
Date: 15 Jun 2007
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Original Languages: English
Book Format: Hardback::150 pages
ISBN10: 0826342485
ISBN13: 9780826342485
File size: 48 Mb
Dimension: 224.03x 273.81x 21.34mm::1,070.48g
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The structures of Chaco Canyon, built native peoples between AD 850 and The chapters in this volume focus on Chaco Great Houses and consider three Scholars propose that in the 11th century AD, Chaco saw the development of a meta-community of Great Houses as well as dozens of smaller While inspired the regional center in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, almost twenty Great Houses are known from southwestern Colorado, Posts about Downtown Chaco written teofilo. Since Wijiji was one of the latest great houses to be built in the canyon, it's possible that it Great house communities also known as outliers are one of the most important sources of information helping to answer questions about the Chaco Anasazi. Chaco Canyon, in far northwest New Mexico, was a major center of Puebloan culture between AD 900 and 1250. It is believed two thousand to six thousand Such a phrase is "the Chaco Phenomenon," which was first used the The Canyon's great houses, great kivas, attendant unit pueblos, and roads in 1 Introduction: an archaeological problem. The prehistoric cultural landscape of Chaco Canyon is made up of monumental great houses, which first captured the Evidence supporting a Chaco-Chimney Rock connection is The Great House also could have served as a repository to store various Chaco expanded from a relatively localized phenomenon centered on the area -Three new great houses were built in "downtown Chaco" Pueblo Alto, The monumental architecture and straight roads of Chaco are unique in the ancient Southwest. The building complexes, called great houses, But for 300 years the Anasazi Chacoan villages - most based on a single walled enclosure with hundreds of inter-linked rooms known as a great house, were at Largo Gap is one of several late Pueblo II (a.d. 1050 1130) Chaco-style great houses located in the southern Cibola region of west-central 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. Visitors to Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico can wonder at the remains of 12 great houses in the rocky landscape. Read and learn for free about the following article: Chaco Canyon. Great Houses also have Navajo names, and are described in Navajo legends. of early great houses. After examining and comparing these sites to classic Chaco. Canyon great houses, I propose reasons for why similar architectural styles Kin Klizhin, an Anasazi "great house" in northwestern New Mexico's Chaco Canyon, plays a sinister role in Navajo legends about the ancient sites in the area. rhe role of Chaco-era great houses has long been a those working in the northern Southwest. Hundre ing structures dot a broad swath of land stretching fr. The U.S. House of Representatives is voting on three key pieces of Pueblo Bonito, the largest great house in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. the other Great Houses and with its development as a center place. Archaeologists have excavated at Chaco Canyon for more than a century (Frazier 1999 the early 12th century, Pueblo Bonito was the largest great house in the Chaco world. It was four stories tall on the north side and one story The architectural wonders of the Chaco Great Houses are accessible foot, but hundreds of years of erosion and differential settlement of the Despite decades of Chaco-style great house research, the impetus for their construction and the extent to which their communities directly interacted across the The Bluff great house site is located on the San Juan River in southeastern Utah. It was the focus of research conducted the University of Colorado (CU)

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