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Y Casa Rinconada
The great kiva of Casa Rinconada is
the largest religious charrber at Chaco,
measuring 62 ft (191"1i in diameter. It
was used for spiritual gatherings.

A Pueblo Alto
Located on top of the mesa at the junction of
S(".leral Chacoan roads is Pueblo Alto. In the
1860s, W. H. Jackson discovered an andent
A Stone Doorway stairway carved into the cliff wall.
A Early Astronomers at Fajada Butte
Measurement of time was vital to the Puebloans for crop
planting and the timing of ceremonies. A spiral petroglyph
carved on Fajada Butte is designed to indicate the changing
seasons through the s hadows it casts on the rock

This great Bonito leads to another
house was four great house, Chetro
stories high
Ketl. Almost as large as
Pueblo Bonito, Chetro
Ketl has more than 500
rooms. The masonry
used to build the Ia ter
portions of this structure
is among the most
sophisticated found in
any Puebloan site.

Y Elaborate cliff dwellings built into
the walls of Mesa Verde

Great House Rooms
Hundreds of rooms within Pueblo Bonito
shcmlittle sign of use and are thought to
have been kept for storage, or for guests
~---'------ arriving to take part in ceremonial events.

CHACO POTTERY
Archeologists believe that the inhabitants of
~ Stone Doorway
Chaco's skilled builders had Chaco Canyon replaced baskets with ceramics
only stone tools to work with for culinary use between 400 and 750. The
to create this finely wrought ceramic pieces found here to date are decorated
stonework. with geometric designs and painted using
.. minerals and carbons .
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