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Chaco Culture National Historical Park, NM (6)
Chaco Culture National Historical Park, NM (6)

**Chaco Culture National Historical Park** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 66000895, date listed 19661015

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Thoreau, NM (McKinley County)

A World Heritage Site (whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/us).

For all the wild beauty of Chaco Canyon's high-desert landscape, its long winters, short growing seasons, and marginal rainfall create an unlikely place for a major center of ancestral Puebloan culture to take root and flourish. Yet this valley was the center of a thriving culture a thousand years ago. The monumental scale of its architecture, the complexity of its community life, the high level of its community social organization, and its far-reaching commerce created a cultural vision unlike any other seen before or since.

The cultural flowering of the Chacoan people began in the mid 800s and lasted more than 300 years. We can see it clearly in the grand scale of the architecture. Using masonry techniques unique for their time, they constructed massive stone buildings (Great Houses) of multiple stories containing hundreds of rooms much larger than any they had previously built. The buildings were planned from the start, in contrast to the usual practiced of adding rooms to existing structures as needed. Constructions on some of these buildings spanned decades and even centuries. Although each is unique, all great houses share architectural features that make them recognizable as Chacoan. (1)

References (1) Chaco Culture NPS www.nps.gov/chcu/learn/historyculture/index.htm

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