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Source of data for this model: Great Pueblo Architecture of Chaco
Canyon, New Mexico, by Stephen H. Lekson, 1987, University of New Mexico
Press, Albuquerque.
Located about 3500 feet north of Pueblo Bonito, Pueblo Alto is the highest
village at Chaco Canyon, and may have been a place of communication into
what is now Mexico via fire signals. There is one possible tower kiva, but
otherwise the entire village is single storey construction.
The village's 110 rooms and eleven kivas were constructed between 1020 AD
and 1140 AD. It was abandoned ten years later.
Seven prehistoric roads radiated outwards from Pueblo Alto. It is a place
were turquoise was processed for ritual object. The source of the turquoise
used here was near present-day Cerillos, south of Santa Fe.
