Peak of the Ancestral Puebloan Chaco Canyon Ceremonial Center

Name: Peak of the Ancestral Puebloan Chaco Canyon Ceremonial Center
Start: 1071
End: 1080

Type Event Region North America Time c. 1071–1080

Around the 1070s CE, Chaco Canyon in the American Southwest remained the flourishing regional ceremonial and administrative center of the Ancestral P…

Timeline

c. 1071–1075Pueblo Bonito · New MexicoDendrochronology shows continued construction on the west wing and central kiva of the Great House during this period; the scale and engineering precision represent the pinnacle of Chaco's ceremonial architectural tradition.
c. 1075–1080Chaco Canyon great road network nodes · New MexicoFir beams from the Chuska and Sandia Mountains, and remains of cacao and macaws from the Mexican lowlands indicate that Chaco still maintained extensive tribute and exchange networks during this period.

Sources

The Chaco Meridian: One Thousand Years of Political and Ritual Power in the Ancient Southwest — Stephen H. Lekson (1999)
In Search of Chaco: New Approaches to an Archaeological Enigma — David Grant Noble (2004)