Kiva at a Chacoan Outlier in the Rio Puerco Valley, New Mexico.

            The Chacoan people had a wide-ranging system of these outlying smaller settlements throughout the Four Corners areas of the southwest U.S. These places were most likely used in trade systems with other ancient peoples in the area, and as an early warning system as well. Most of the Chacoan Outlier were connected to the main settlements in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Messengers could go quickly to the main settlement via these roads to warn of any kind of antagonistic activity by other people, or to simply supply trade goods. 

The Chacoan People left no explanation of any of the above activities, so much is speculation based on archaeological evidence discovered thus far.

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