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Ancestral Puebloan people first began building pueblo structures during the Pueblo I Period (750–900 CE). When Spanish colonists arrived in the Southwest beginning in the late 1500s, they learned the local construction techniques from the Pueblo people and adapted them to fit their own building types, such as haciendas and mission churches. [1]
Map of Ancient Pueblo People regions, including the northern Mesa Verde region and the southern Chaco Canyon region. Archaeologists have agreed on three main periods of ancient occupation by Pueblo peoples throughout the Southwest called Pueblo I, Pueblo II, and Pueblo III. [2] Pueblo I (750–900 CE). Pueblo buildings were built with stone ...
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.
Photo Chimney Rock (Site ID 5AA.985) Anasazi Pueblo II Chimney Rock: Chimney Rock National Monument: Great house The Ancient Pueblo People site, designated on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, was a community inhabited between Durango and Pagosa Springs about 1,000 years ago with about 200 rooms. Rooms in the buildings were used ...
Great house An active pueblo that is home of one of the 21 federally recognized Pueblos. Pilabó: Tiwa Socorro Great house Ruins. Once the home of the Piro Pueblo, located at the site of the present town of the city of Socorro. Poblazon: Bernalillo Ruins. Pojoaque: Tewa Great house An active pueblo that is home of one of the 21 federally ...
Interior of Great Kiva at Aztec Ruins National Monument showing the vast size of the structure Ruins of the kiva at Puerco Pueblo, Petrified Forest National Park Chacoan round room features. A kiva (also estufa [1]) is a space used by Puebloans for rites and political meetings, many of them associated with the kachina belief system.
Pueblo homes had thick walls and small windows to minimize the effects of the heat. [2] These houses were frequently multi-storied, with rooms decreasing in size with each level. [1] Pueblos were typically inhabited by both nuclear and extended families, with interconnected rooms to accommodate this. [1]
The Puye Cliff Dwellings are the ruins of an abandoned pueblo, located in Santa Clara Canyon on Santa Clara Pueblo Reservation land near Española, New Mexico.Established in the late 1200s or early 1300s and abandoned by about 1600, this is among the largest of the prehistoric Indian settlements on the Pajarito Plateau, showing a variety of architectural forms and building techniques.