Original ceiling in a ground floor room in the NW block of Aztec Ruins C12th Anasazi pueblo, New Mexico. Pine beams (vigas) brought from 20 miles away
Original ceiling in a ground floor room in the NW block of Aztec Ruins C12thAD Anasazi pueblo, New Mexico. Pine beams (vigas) brought from 20 miles away are criss-crossed by local cottonwood poles and juniper splits & bark which support the thick clay floor of the room above. 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: 2338px × 3322px
Location: Aztec Ruins National Monument, Farmington, San Juan County, New Mexico, USA
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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