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Becoming Chacoan: The Archaeology Of The Aztec North Great House, Michelle I. Turner
Becoming Chacoan: The Archaeology Of The Aztec North Great House, Michelle I. Turner
Graduate Dissertations and Theses
Between 900 and 1140 CE, people at Chaco Canyon and throughout its region built multistory monumental structures with hundreds of rooms, known as great houses. This dissertation reports on recent archaeological testing on one such great house, the Aztec North great house at Aztec Ruins National Monument.
I argue that Aztec North’s occupation represents an early, transitional period, as people previously not involved in the Chaco world made choices that increasingly brought them into Chaco’s orbit and changed their way of life forever. The structure represents a remarkable architectural experiment in large-scale adobe construction, one that likely was not terribly …