Early Pueblo III great house Kiva D overviews

Creator(s): Gary Brown; Joel Gamache

Year: 1998

Summary

Aztec West, Sector 1, Kiva D southern recess overviews (room photographed in 1998 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Early PIII above ground kiva added to south East Wing of West Ruin(see Morris 1924, 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Kiva D_2A: Close-up of southern recess copied from IMG0044; Image AZRU-E Wing_Kiva D_2B: East wall of southern recess copied from IMG0045; Image AZRU-E Wing_Kiva D_2C: West wall of southern recess copied from IMG0046. References: Earl Morris, 1924, Burials in the Aztec Ruin and the Aztec Ruin Annex, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History Vol. XXVI, Parts III and IV, American Museum of Natural History, New York. Earl Morris, 1928, Notes on Excavations in the Aztec Ruin, Volume XXVI, Part V, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, New York.

Cite this Record

Early Pueblo III great house Kiva D overviews. Gary Brown, Joel Gamache. 1998. Aztec Ruins National Monument ( tDAR id: 374264) ; doi:10.6067/XCV85H7F8H


Keywords

Culture
Ancestral Puebloan

Material
Building Materials

Site Name
Aztec Ruins • Aztec West Ruin

Site Type
Ancient Communal / Public Structure • Ancient Structure • Chacoan Outlier • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Great House / Big House • Kiva / Great Kiva • Town / City

Investigation Types
Architectural Documentation • Site Stabilization

General
Architectural Assessment • Architecture Analysis • Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec, NM • Aztec West Ruin • Kiva D • Masonry Architecture • Masonry Pueblos • Masonry Roomblock • PIII

Geographic Keywords
Animas Valley • Four Corners Region • Middle San Juan • San Juan Basin • Totah

Temporal Keywords
Late Chacoan - Post Chacoan Period

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1110 to 1140 (Late Chacoan)

Calendar Date: 1140 to 1280 (Post Chacoan)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -108.037; min lat: 36.802 ; max long: -107.96; max lat: 36.857 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Lori Reed

Contributor(s): Joel Gamache; Aztec Ruins National Monument

Principal Investigator(s): Gary Brown

Notes

General Note: Publication or use of the images is restricted; permission may be obtained through consultation with National Park Service, Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec, NM.

General Note: High resolution images are archived and available to researchers through the National Park Service, Aztec Ruins National Monument.

Source Collections

NPS Archives housed at Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec, and Hibben Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Related Comparative Collections

Additional photographic and documentary archives housed at American Museum of Natural History, New York and Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado, Boulder

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