The Great Houses of Chaco

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 people lived, annually, in about one hundred settlements scattered in and around the Canyon.

The altitude (the canyon floor is sixty-two hundred feet above sea level) and the arid, desolate setting resulted in unique architecture and living styles. Puebloan masons used local sandstone and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826342485
• ISBN13: 9780826342485
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 2.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.8" x 8.8"