A series of doorways in the eastern multi-storey room block of Aztec Ruins pueblo, New Mexico: note the high sills to reduce draughts & conserve heat.
A series of doorways in the eastern multi-storey room block of Aztec Ruins pueblo, New Mexico: note the high sills to reduce draughts & conserve heat (the front sill has been damaged). The pueblo at Aztec was first built c AD1125 as a Chacoan outlier 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.
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Location: Aztec Ruins National Monument, Farmington, San Juan County, New Mexico, USA
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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