Chaco Canyon served as a major urban center of ancestral Puebloan culture from 850 A.D. to 1250 A.D.
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Chaco Canyon National Monument was established on March 11, 1907, as Richard Wetherill relinquished his claim on several parcels of land he held in Chaco Canyon.
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Looking down into a great kiva.
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The walls after being built were cover with a mud. Most of that is gone now.
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Used to grind corn which was used to make offerings.
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Looking into a kiva. A kiva is a room used by Hopi and most other Pueblo peoples for religious rituals, many of them associated with the kachina belief system.
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What is left of at 2nd story floor. Mats would have been placed on the wood beams. Some of the buildings were 3-4 stories high.
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