Chaco Canyon National Historical Park - New Mexico USA
When I visited Chaco Canyon my main intention was to visit the Pueblo Bonito Great House. This is the largest and best known Great House in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, northern New Mexico, It was was built by ancestral Pueblo people and occupied between AD 828 and 1126.
The site is located 4 1/2 miles from the visitor center on the 9-mile Canyon Loop Drive.
Pueblo Bonito is the most thoroughly investigated and celebrated cultural site in Chaco Canyon. Planned and constructed in stages between AD 850 to AD 1150 by ancestral Puebloan peoples, this was the center of the Chacoan world. That world eventually covered a vast area of the present-day Southwest, including the San Juan Basin of New Mexico, and portions of Colorado, Utah, and Arizona. For over 300 years, Chacoan Culture united many diverse peoples within its sphere of influence.
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Chaco Culture National Historical Park
The Mystery of Chaco Canyon - documentary with Robert Redford narration
Pueblo Bonito
Pueblo Bonito 1995 Site Guide
I shot these video clips with a new camera I was learning to use. A Sony NEX 6 with the stock zoom lens.
Background music is Dreamscape from the Diane Arkenstone - The Healing Spirit album.
Chaco Culture National Historical Park - Nageezi, New Mexico
Chaco Culture National Historical Park is both a unit of the National Park Service and recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. For 250 years starting around 900AD, Chaco Canyon, in northwestern New Mexico, was a major center for the Ancestral Puebloans.
Several great houses and other complexes were built, many of which were aligned with solar and lunar patterns. These were quite large, remaining the largest buildings in North America until the 1800s. Today the park is home to the largest concentration of ancient pueblo ruins in the United States.
The Photos (in order)
N05A1487 - Pueblo Bonito ruins from the Pueblo Alto Trail
N05A1407 - Pueblo Bonito ruins
N05A1463 - The restored Great Kiva of Chetro Ketl
N05A1517 - Chetro Ketl ruins from the Pueblo Alto Trail
N05A1476 - Kin Kletso ruins from the Pueblo Alto Trail
N05A1498 - New Alto ruins
N05A1388 - Una Vida is one of several petroglyphs sites in the park
N05A1536 - Pueblo del Arroyo ruins
Chaco Canyon New Mexico Pueblo Native American City
Chaco Culture National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park hosting the densest and most exceptional concentration of pueblos in the American Southwest. The park is located in northwestern New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington, in a remote canyon cut by the Chaco Wash. Containing the most sweeping collection of ancient ruins north of Mexico, the park preserves one of the United States' most important pre-Columbian cultural and historical areas.[2]
Between AD 900 and 1150, Chaco Canyon was a major center of culture for the Ancient Pueblo Peoples.[a] Chacoans quarried sandstone blocks and hauled timber from great distances, assembling fifteen major complexes which remained the largest buildings in North America until the 19th century.[2][4] Evidence of archaeoastronomy at Chaco has been proposed, with the Sun Dagger petroglyph at Fajada Butte a popular example. Many Chacoan buildings may have been aligned to capture the solar and lunar cycles,[5] requiring generations of astronomical observations and centuries of skillfully coordinated construction.[6] Climate change is thought to have led to the emigration of Chacoans and the eventual abandonment of the canyon, beginning with a fifty-year drought commencing in 1130.[7]
Composing a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the arid and sparsely populated Four Corners region, the Chacoan cultural sites are fragile; fears of erosion caused by tourists have led to the closure of Fajada Butte to the public. The sites are considered sacred ancestral homelands by the Hopi and Pueblo people, who maintain oral accounts of their historical migration from Chaco and their spiritual relationship to the land.[8][9] Though park preservation efforts can conflict with native religious beliefs, tribal representatives work closely with the National Park Service to share their knowledge and respect the heritage of the Chacoan culture.[8]
New Mexico Travel: Chaco Culture National Historical Park--A Great New Mexico Travel Idea!
New Mexico Travel: Chaco Culture National Historical Park--A Great New Mexico Travel Idea!
New Mexico Travel Mill presents this video of highlights from Chaco Culture National Historical Park, located in Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico in the United States. The park is located in the Four Corners region--so called because it is the area where the borders of the states of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado meet.
Chaco Canyon was home to ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) people from about 850 A.D. -1250 A.D. and remains a place of spiritual and cultural significance to the Native Americans of the southwestern U.S. today. The park includes six major cultural sites: Una Vida, Hungo Pavi, Pueblo Bonito, Chetro Ketl, Pueblo del Arroyo, and Casa Rinconada.
The video includes an animated, aerial view of Una Vida, Hungo Pavi, Chetro Ketl, and Pueblo Bonito (the center of the Chacoan world). This perspective allows you do have an overview of Chaco Canyon and see how the sites are situated with respect to each other and the surrounding land.
You will also see video of many of the sites of the park: the ruins of several Great Houses--large complexes of up to 700 rooms; kivas--ceremonial areas; plazas; and petroglyphs (rock carvings) on the Petroglyph Trail. Some of the sites have been excavated and others have not. You will see ancient stairways, windows, rooms, plazas, and vast multi-story structures.
If you are looking for New Mexico travel ideas, consider visiting the Chaco Culture National Historic Park. Explore the canyon by car, hike by foot, or ride your bicycle with guided or self-guided tours. Your vacation is sure to be educational and fun!
Chaco Culture National Historical Park, National Park Service video
Chaco Canyon National Historical Park - New Mexico USA video
Inside Pueblo Bonito Indian Ruin at Chaco Culture National Historic Park video
Wikipedia, Chaco Culture National Historical Park
TripAdvisor, Chaco Culture National Historical Park
National Park Service, Chaco Culture National Historical Park
Frommer's, Chaco Culture National Historical Park
UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Chaco Culture National Historical Park
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Chaco Canyon - Aurora Borealis - Pueblo Bonito
One of the most unique shots to EVER come out of Chaco Canyon. The Fiske Planetarium and xRES studio caught an Aurora Borealis over Pueblo Bonito's Grand Kiva.
This shot, although beautiful is now etched forever as one of the most unique, and fortunate events to ever be recorded. The odds of duplicating this shot are incomprehensible.
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Pueblo Bonito
Slideshow of the Pueblo Bonito ruin at Chaco Canyon National Monument in New Mexico.
Inside Pueblo Bonito
A tour inside one of the largest rooms within the Pueblo Bonito ruins, Chaco Canyon. Chaco Canyon is located near the four-corners area of the United States. People have lived there for thousands of years. Starting at about AD 900, a remarkable set of building activities took place, resulting in the construction of Great Houses. These include Pueblo Bonito, Pueblo Alto and Chetro Ketl, among others. The Great Houses were abandoned sometime around AD 1250. They remain to remind visitors today about the skill and organization of the people who lived there.
The Chaco Stratigraphy project is an interdisciplinary research program at the University of New Mexico. Part of its program includes a field school where students can get first hand experience at archaeology.
Chaco Canyon
Energy development (oil & gas, coal, uranium) is intensive in the area surrounding Chaco Culture
National Historical Park in Northwestern New Mexico. Chaco NHP is designated as a World Heritage
Site by the UNESCO and is one of the finest examples of Puebloan culture centers in the
Southwestern United States (inhabited AD 850-1250). Our video shows the encroachment of oil & gas development on Chaco.
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New Mexico Travel Destination & Attractions | Visit Chaco Culture National Historical Park Show
Chaco Culture National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park hosting the densest and most exceptional concentration of pueblos in the American Southwest. The park is located in northwestern New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington, in a remote canyon cut by the Chaco Wash. Containing the most sweeping collection of ancient ruins north of Mexico, the park preserves one of the United States' most important pre-Columbian cultural and historical areas.[2]
Between AD 900 and 1150, Chaco Canyon was a major center of culture for the Ancient Pueblo Peoples.[a] Chacoans quarried sandstone blocks and hauled timber from great distances, assembling fifteen major complexes that remained the largest buildings in North America until the 19th century.[2][4] Evidence of archaeoastronomy at Chaco has been proposed, with the Sun Dagger petroglyph at Fajada Butte a popular example. Many Chacoan buildings may have been aligned to capture the solar and lunar cycles,[5] requiring generations of astronomical observations and centuries of skillfully coordinated construction.[6] Climate change is thought to have led to the emigration of Chacoans and the eventual abandonment of the canyon, beginning with a fifty-year drought commencing in 1130.[7]
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Inside Pueblo Bonito Indian Ruin at Chaco Culture National Historic Park
A journey through Pueblo Bonito, an Anasazi Indian Ruin in Chaco Canyon in Northwest New Mexico.
Pueblo Bonito from Mesa, Chaco Culture National Historic Park, Crystal Canyon R. Carlos Nakai
Pueblo Bonito, considered to be the center of the Chacoan world, is the largest of the great houses in Chaco Culture National Historic Park Ancient Pueblo people built this enormous complex covering 2 acres, 4 stories high, with 650 to 800 rooms, 32 kivas and 3 great kivas, from 850 CE to 1150 CE. Theories vary on the population of Pueblo Bonito, but the lack of hearths in most of the rooms suggest that a small population of people inhabited the pueblo year round and hundreds, perhaps thousands of people travelled to Chaco and Pueblo Bonito for seasonal rituals.
This video was taken approximately 100 ft above Bonito, near the Pueblo Bonito overlook on Chaco Mesa. Following torrential rain in Jan., 1941, a portion of the canyon wall known as Threatening Rock, weighing approximately 30 tons, collapsed on Bonito, destroying a portion of the rear wall and a number of rooms.
Archeologists have found 8 wooden flutes in a room at Chaco, so I extend my deepest gratitude to R. Carlos Nakai and Canyon Records, for permission to us Crystal Canyon, from the album, Earth Spirit, ©1987 R. Carlos Nakai, © 2003 Canyon Records, courtesy Canyon Records License #2013-007, used with permission. All rights reserved.
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Chaco Culture National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park hosting the densest and most exceptional concentration of pueblos in the American heritage preserved.
Salmon Ruins New Mexico USA Aztec Pueblo Chaco Canyon Four Corners San Juan Music
SALMON RUINS
Our Story Begins around AD 1064,
but it doesn't stop there.
Some of the earliest dates determined
at Salmon Pueblo indicate presence of
a settlement as early as AD 1064,
when the first small group of rooms
was established and, perhaps,
the pueblo cornerstones
marked out by the people
of the Chaco Culture group.
Building the majority of Salmon Pueblo
between 1088 and 1092, the Chaco
inhabitants lived here for about
20 years before moving to the newly
constructed, nearby Aztec Pueblo.
It is believed that the flooding potential
of the San Juan River encouraged the
inhabitants to move and leave
the Salmon Pueblo abandoned.
In AD 1160,
a gathering of various cultural groups
from around the region found their
way to reoccupy the pueblo.
This blending of regional groups
is called the San Juan Occupation.
Because of the dominant pottery styles
found during excavations, the
San Juan Occupation was formally
called the Mesa Verde Occupation,
but the name was modified when
modern testing showed that the
various regional pottery styles were
being made with local clays.
The use of what had, until new testing,
appeared to be the decorated ceramics of
trade-wares, were actually made with
local clay resources, which indicated
that the craftsmen (pottery makers)
were from other culture groups,
but were making their
pottery at Salmon Pueblo.
Around 1250, the San Juan Occupation
also abandoned the pueblo.
With evidence of ceremonial closure
of the kivas, it is still difficult to say with
certainty why this second group left.
Whatever the reason, the pueblo
remained unbothered until
the opening of the region
to homesteading in 1876.
CONTACT
Salmon Ruins Museum
P. O. Box 125
Bloomfield, New Mexico 87413
sreducation@sisna.com
505-632-2013
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Chaco Culture National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park hosting the densest and most exceptional concentration of pueblos in the American Southwest.
The park is located in northwestern New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington, in a remote canyon cut by the Chaco Wash. Containing the most sweeping collection of ancient ruins north of Mexico, the park preserves one of the most important pre-Columbian cultural and historical areas in the United States.
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Chaco Canyon - In Search of White House
This project will eventually be a long form documentary about Chaco Canyon National Historical Park located in New Mexico. These test sequences highlight the Chaco Great Houses of Wijiji and Hungo Pavi with some interior shots of Pueblo Bonito. Archaeologist Stephen Lekson briefly discusses the implications of Chaco Canyon as the location of White House, an extremely important and powerful place in the oral histories of the Pueblo People. This is a work in progress filmed and edited by David Herzberg.
Chaco Canyon/New Mexico/May 2012
This is a slideshow I put together of my trip to Santa Fe to visit my good friends, John and Vincent. We camped for one night in Chaco Canyon. These are all single images
A Drone Quadcopter Aerial Survey of the Kutz Canyon Stairway area, New Mexico
This is a flight along the supposed route of the Kutz Canyon Stairway, which may have been a component of Chaco Canyon's road network. It was flown using a Tarot 650 quadcopter. The camera was a GoPro 3+ Black in a stabilized Tarot gimbal mount. It was flown May 20, 2015.
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Aztec Ruins National Monument
Follow ancient passageways to a distant time. Explore West Ruin, a center of ancestral Pueblo society that once housed over 500 masonry rooms. Look up and see original timbers holding up the roof. Search for the fingerprints of ancient workers in the stucco walls. Listen for an echo of ritual drums in the reconstructed Great Kiva. Adventure into the past.
Chaco Canyon
From AD 850 to 1250, Chaco was a hub of ceremony, trade, and administration for the prehistoric Four Corners area--unlike anything before or since. Chaco is remarkable for its multi-storied public buildings, ceremonial buildings, and distinctive architecture. These structures required considerable planning, designing, organizing of labor, and engineering to construct. The Chacoan people combined many elements: pre-planned architectural designs, astronomical alignments, geometry, landscaping, and engineering to create an ancient urban center of spectacular public architecture--one that still awes and inspires us a thousand years later.
American Southwest 2013 - #1 Aztec Ruins, New Mexico
Aztec was one of the largest Ancestral Pueblo settlements in the Southwest. It is located between two major centers—Chaco Canyon to the south and Mesa Verde to the north. Both areas strongly influenced the local inhabitants at different times, but the exact nature and extent of the interac¬tion has yet to be sorted out. The west pueblo, containing about 400 rooms, was the largest of the great houses. Several hundred people may have lived there. Hundreds of rooms formed massive walls that were set at right angles around a central plaza. A low row of single-story rooms on the south completed the enclosure. Rooftops once stepped upward in three sun-facing tiers, reaching nearly thirty-feet high on the north wall.
Mysterious Chaco Canyon!
Mysterious Chaco Canyon of New Mexico. Aaron Judkins travels to the Culture National Historical Park of Chaco Canyon to investigate the mysteries of the ancient Pueblo Native Americans. CHACO is considered in the top 10 most important archaeological sites in the lower 48 stretching 9 miles of ancient ruins north of New Mexico. One of the most important pre-Columbian cultural areas in the U.S.
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