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The canyon itself runs along one of the lunar alignment lines, suggesting the location was originally chosen for its astronomical significance. If nothing else, this allowed alignment with several other key structures in the canyon. [6] Chaco Canyon Ancestral Puebloan lapidary tool kit, NPS. Turquoise was very important to the people of Chaco.
The construction and use of these roads can be linked to the increasing number of droughts in the area. Migrating to more productive areas of the San Juan Basin, the main Chaco population abandoned the canyon to move to more hospitable lands. Constructing roads to link the populace together and counteract displacement was the main use of these ...
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 Chaco Project, conducted by the National Park Service and the University of New Mexico, surveys and excavates Chaco Canyon 1976-1978 Fourteen rooms at Pueblo Alto excavated by the Chaco Project 1980 Chaco Canyon National Monument is renamed Chaco Culture National Historical Park with 13,000 acres (53 km 2) added. The Chaco Culture ...
Northwestern New Mexico (Chaco Canyon, Aztec) Built multistory pueblos, practiced irrigation, and laid out road systems Rio Grande Classic AD 1300 to 1600 [citation needed] West-central New Mexico, Rio Grande Valley, Pecos Abandoned northwestern New Mexico sites, migrated to new areas of settlement, and changed building and pottery style
One of the most notable aspects of Ancestral Puebloan infrastructure is the Chaco Road at Chaco Canyon, a system of roads radiating from many great house sites such as Pueblo Bonito, Chetro Ketl, and Una Vida. They led toward small outlier sites and natural features in the canyon and outside.
[46] [7] The Ancestral Puebloan centers of Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde were abandoned in the 12th and 13th centuries CE, probably because of drought. [47] [48] After a thousand years of success, the complex Hohokam society disappeared in the 15th century CE and became the smaller-scale Pima culture of historic times. [49] [50]
A roadmap of the Chaco Canyon culture roadways. There are a number of consistent features surrounding the dwellings. They include water retention structures like the Mesa Verde Reservoirs, and stone towers. Each were about 60 meters long, 33 meters apart, and 2.5 meters high.