Late Pueblo II great house Kiva G features

Creator(s): Gary Brown; Joel Gamache

Year: 2010

Summary

Aztec West, Sector 3, Kiva G enclosing wall overviews (kiva photographed in 2010 by Joel Gamache as part of post-backfilling Condition Assessment). Late PII above ground kiva located in the NE sector of the East Wing (see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Kiva G_3A: East interior enclosing wall NE oblique copied from cIMG_6253; AZRU-E Wing_Room Kiva G_3B: North jamb of east interior enclosing wall doorway copied from cIMG_6267; AZRU-E Wing_Kiva G_3C: Close-up of east interior enclosing wall doorway copied from cIMG_6269; Image AZRU-E Wing_Kiva G_3D: South jamb of east interior enclosing wall doorway copied from cIMG_6268; Image AZRU-E Wing_Kiva G_3E: Close-up of historic drain in north interior wall copied from cIMG_6240; Image AZRU-E Wing_Kiva G_3F: NE wall abutment in west exterior enclosing wall copied from cIMG_6255; Image AZRU-E Wing_Kiva G_3G: SE wall abutment of west exterior enclosing wall copied cIMG_6254. Reference: 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

Late Pueblo II great house Kiva G features. Gary Brown, Joel Gamache. 2010. Aztec Ruins National Monument ( tDAR id: 374340) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8W37V26


Keywords

Culture
Ancestral Puebloan

Material
Building Materials • Wood

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 G • Masonry Architecture • Masonry Pueblos • Masonry Roomblock • PII

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; Anne Grulich; Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec, NM

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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