Aztec Ruins National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Learn more about the ancestral Pueblo people in the park's museum and explore the Aztec West great house to see exceptionally advanced architecture, original wooden beams, and a restored Great Kiva. Aztec Ruins is a deeply sacred place to many Indigenous peoples across the American Southwest.
Aztec Ruins NM: An Administrative History (Chapter 7) - U.S.
Great Kiva. When the Great Kiva was cleared in 1921, there was no money to fix its slumping walls and floor features or to cover it in any way. Three years later, after the Aztec Ruin was the property of the government, Morris notified the American Museum of the rapid deterioration of the structure, saying: Of repair the ruin needs a great deal.
Great Kiva (Activity 1) - Online Junior Ranger Program - Aztec …
2018年3月13日 · Great Kiva Activity. It’s your turn to be an archeologist and reconstruct the Great Kiva. Place the modern pictures over the matching part of the historic picture to help Earl reconstruct the Great Kiva.
New Mexico: Aztec Ruins National Monument - U.S. National Park …
2017年11月8日 · When the building ceased in the late 1200s, the community consisted of several great houses, great kivas (a kiva is a Hopi word meaning “ceremonial chamber”), small residential pueblos, earthworks, roads, and tri-walled kivas.
Aztec Ruins NM: An Administrative History (Chapter 3) - U.S.
Excavations revealed the beginning, middle, and end of the Aztec Great Kiva. It was sunk into a trashy stratum covering a surface in the south part of the central courtyard, which was peppered with fragments of Chaco Black-on-White pottery.
NPS Historical Handbook: Aztec Ruins - U.S. National Park Service
2001年1月13日 · The Great Kiva, or House of the Great Kiva as Morris called it, is centrally located in the south side of the plaza. It is essentially circular in form and has two distinct parts. The inner part—the kiva proper—has a floor about 8 feet below the surface.
Earl Halstead Morris - U.S. National Park Service
Today, the reconstructed Great Kiva at Aztec Ruins National Monument continues to reveal a glimpse into the life and culture of the ancestral Pueblo that lived here nearly 1000 years ago. In 1923, Earl Morris married Ann Axtell , who would become a famous archaeologist, artist, and …
Plan Your Visit - Aztec Ruins National Monument (U.S. National …
2024年5月19日 · The interior of the restored Great Kiva. Andrew Kearns. Step Back in Time. During a 1-2 hour visit, you can travel back 900 years to the time of a thriving ancestral Pueblo great house community. A ranger will greet you at the visitor center.
Aztec Ruins NM: Guidebook (1946) - U.S. National Park Service
The great kiva in the plaza of the main Aztec ruin, which exemplifies the type excellently, was the first example to be excavated. One of the unexcavated sites in the monument may prove to be another example.
People - Aztec Ruins National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
2022年9月12日 · Concentrated on and below a terrace overlooking the Animas River, the people at Aztec built several multi-story buildings called “great houses” and many smaller structures. Associated with each great house was a “great kiva”—a large circular chamber used for …