Chaco Canyon Pueblo Culture (1010s)

Name: Chaco Canyon Pueblo Culture (1010s)
Start: 1010
End: 1019

Type Event Region North America Time 1010–1019

In the early 11th century Chaco Canyon in the American Southwest, as a ceremonial and political center of the Ancestral Puebloans, remained in the la…

Timeline

1010–1019Pueblo Bonito · New MexicoThe largest Great House sites in Chaco Canyon were still being maintained and expanded in the early 11th century; stone multi-story buildings, kiva ceremonial pits, and long-distance goods such as turquoise and macaw feathers show that elite ceremonial networks continued to function.
1011–1019Chaco road network · Four CornersStraight roads linking the canyon center with outlying Great Houses, resource sites, and ceremonial landmarks reflect Ancestral Puebloan political and ritual manipulation of the landscape; road-related activity remains were still visible in the 1010s, though signs of regional reorganization appeared after the system's peak.

Sources

The Chaco Meridian: One Thousand Years of Political and Religious Power in the Ancient Southwest — Stephen H. Lekson (1999)
The Archaeology of Chaco Canyon: An Eleventh-Century Pueblo Regional Center — Stephen H. Lekson (2006)