Detail of the 85m (278ft) decorative exterior W wall of Aztec Ruins Anasazi pueblo, New Mexico, where the room blocks reached three storeys high.
Detail of the 85m (278ft) exterior W wall of Aztec Ruins Anasazi pueblo, New Mexico, where the roomblocks reached three storeys high. Shows the chopped and smoothed end of a viga (ceiling beam/floor support), a window and the tabular sandstone wall veneer with horizontal bands of green. The small low windows provided light and ventilation to the outer ground floor rooms which were entered via retractable ladders and roof hatches. The pueblo at Aztec was first built as a Chacoan outlier c AD1125 by Anasazi people associated with Chaco Canyon, some 50 miles to the S and connected by a Chacoan road. After abandonment around 1200, the site was reoccupied (c AD1225-late 1200s) by other Pueblo people from Mesa Verde some 40 miles to the NW.
Size: 3322px × 2338px
Location: Aztec Ruins National Monument, Farmington, San Juan County, New Mexico, USA
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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