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This page shows a possible construction sequence of the ancient Anasazi
Indian village called Pueblo Bonito, based upon fairly hard archaeological
data. You may need to let the movie loop several times to form your own
impressions of this information.
As an architect I find several strange and curious things about this
archaeological model including:
A) In Stage IV, an earlier (curvalinear) Stage IB is completely torn down
and rebuilt in a rectilinear structure.
B) At about the time the central Great Kiva of StageVII is built, an earlier
Great Kiva built in Stage III is abandoned and filled in to become part
of the west plaza.
Also other smaller kivas were abandoned and filled at various stages the
Pueblo's evolution.
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.