Original Photographs - Ruins of the Four Corners
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The Chaco Canyon Anasazi built Great Houses which were huge pueblos with hundreds of rooms. Pueblo Bonito was the largest. Their stonework was very precise and painstaking. All of the Great Houses in and around Chaco Canyon were abandoned by 1150. Click to enlarge Anasazi Doorways
The Chaco Canyon Anasazi built Great Houses which were huge pueblos with hundreds of rooms. The Great Houses at Aztec were constructed between 1100 and 1150 A.D. near the end of the occupation of Chaco Canyon. Click to enlarge Anasazi Doorways.
The Chacoan Great Houses at Aztec were constructed between 1100 and1150 A.D. near the end of the occupation of Chaco Canyon. Click to enlarge Aztec Ruins.
Anasazi Doorways
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Anasazi Doorways
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Aztec Ruins
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The 400-room pueblo seen here is known as Aztec West and is just a small part of the Aztec Ruins National Monument. Several more large, unexcavated ruins lie immediately to the east and north. Click to enlarge Aztec Ruins.
More than fifteen hundred years ago, the Four Corners area was inhabited by Ancestral Puebloan people also known as the Anasazi. The Chaco Canyon Anasazi built Great Houses which were huge pueblos with hundreds of rooms. Aztec Ruins is one of these Great Houses. Click to enlarge Aztec Ruins.
Casa Rinconada is a Great Kiva separated from other major structures in Chaco Canyon. It is aligned north-south with the Tsin Kletzin Great House, on the mesa to the south, and with Pueblo Alto, on the mesa to the north. Click to enlarge Casa Rinconada.
Aztec Ruins
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Aztec Ruins
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Casa Rinconada
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The Pueblo Revolt against the Spanish started in 1680 and lasted 12 years. Many of the Pueblo groups along the northern Rio Grande fled west to Navajo territory. Here in Dinetah, they built small pueblos known as pueblitos. Click to enlarge the Citadel Pueblito.
Fajada Butte rises 300 feet above the floor of Chaco Canyon and dominates the landscape. Near the top there are three large upright slabs arranged to allow sunlight to pass through slits between them and to fall on two spiral petroglyphs. Daggers of light falling on the spirals serve as a calendar with the summer and winter solstices marked in the center and on the edges, respectively. Click to enlarge Fajada Butte.
The Great Kiva at Aztec was restored by Earl Morris between 1921 and 1934. Four giant pillars supported the roof which weighed almost a hundred tons. Huge stone discs formed the foundations of the pillars. Click to enlarge the Great Kiva at Aztec.

Citadel Pueblito
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Fajada Butte
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Great Kiva at Aztec
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The Great Kiva at Aztec was restored by Earl Morris between 1921 and 1934. At almost fifty feet in diameter, it is one of the largest known great kivas. Click to enlarge Great Kiva.
Kin Kletso was three stories tall and contained five kivas and 100 rooms and represents some of the final construction prior to Chaco Canyon being abandoned around 1150. Click to enlarge Kin Kletso.
More than fifteen hundred years ago, the Four Corners area was inhabited by Ancestral Puebloan people also known as the Anasazi. Mummy Cave is in Canyon del Muerto in Canyon de Chelly National Monument. Click to enlarge Mummy Cave
Great Kiva at Aztec
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Kin Kletso
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Mummy Cave
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The Chaco Canyon Anasazi built Great Houses which were huge pueblos with hundreds of rooms. Pueblo Bonito was the largest. Click to enlarge Pueblo Bonito
Pueblo Bonito was the largest of the Great Houses in Chaco Canyon. All of the Great Houses in and around Chaco Canyon were abandoned by 1150. Click to enlarge Pueblo Bonito.
Pioneer Pete Salmon owned the land which contained the Salmon Ruins until the 1960s. When the homestead was put on the market, the San Juan County Museum Association raised the money to buy the site and see that both the Salmon Ruins and the pioneer homestead were preserved. Click to enlarge Homestead at Salmon Ruins
Pueblo Bonito
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Pueblo Bonito
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Homestead at Salmon Ruins
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Salmon Ruins is a Chacoan-style pueblo that may have been the destination of a major Chacoan route called the Great North Road. Numerous kivas are contained within the ruins including the two kivas shown here. The blocked-in kiva in the foreground was built above grade and, when excavated, contained the remains of more than 50 children. It is believed they were trapped in the kiva when a fire caused the roof to collapse. Click to enlarge Kivas at Salmon Ruins
Pioneer Pete Salmon owned the land which contained the Salmon Ruins until the 1960s. Surrounded by the growth of the towns of Bloomfield and Farmington, the heritage park takes the visitor back to the early 1900s when bunkhouses were used by field hands, food was stored in root cellars, and trading posts were established to buy and sell goods. Click to enlarge Root Cellar at Salmon Ruins
Pioneer Pete Salmon owned the land which contained the Salmon Ruins until the 1960s. When the homestead was put on the market, the San Juan County Museum Association raised the money to buy the site and see that both the Salmon Ruins and the pioneer homestead were preserved. Click to enlarge Trading Post at Salmon Ruins
Kivas at Salmon Ruins
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Root Cellar at Salmon Ruins
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Trading Post at Salmon Ruins
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More than fifteen hundred years ago, the Four Corners area was inhabited by Ancestral Puebloan people also known as the Anasazi. White House is in Canyon de Chelly National Monument. Click to enlarge White House
Around 1700 the Navajo Indians moved down from northern New Mexico into the Canyon de Chelly area. Except for a four year period of incarceration at Ft. Sumner, New Mexico, the Navajo have farmed and herded sheep in the beautiful, fertile bottoms of the canyons since that time. Many of their circular houses, called hogans, can be found along the stream banks. Click to enlarge 4 views of Canyon de Chelly.
More than fifteen hundred years ago, the Four Corners area was inhabited by Ancestral Puebloan people also known as the Anasazi. Evidence of their occupation remains in their buildings and their petroglyphs and pictographs. The architecture of their buildings varies from small, adobe granaries to the impressive cliff dwellings. Click to enlarge 4 views of Canyon de Chelly.
White House
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Canyon de Chelly
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Canyon de Chelly
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The Chaco Canyon Anasazi built Great Houses which were huge pueblos with hundreds of rooms. Although they began occupying the canyon much earlier, the Great Houses were constructed and their society flourished between 860 and 1140. The beautiful and precise stonework is a hallmark of Chaco Canyon. Click to enlarge 4 views of Chaco Canyon
The Chaco Canyon Anasazi built Great Houses which were huge pueblos with hundreds of rooms. Although they began occupying the canyon much earlier, the Great Houses were constructed and their society flourished between 860 and 1140. The beautiful and precise stonework is a hallmark of Chaco Canyon. Click to enlarge 4 views of Chaco Canyon
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Chaco Canyon
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