Chetro Ketl
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Chetro Ketl is a Chacoan Anasazi great house and notable archaeological site located in Chaco Canyon, a canyon in the U.S.
state of New Mexico
. In the cliffs behind the ruins there are ancient stairways that lead to prehistoric roadways that connect to Pueblo Bonito
. Chetro Ketl bears the typical D-shape of many other central complexes, but is slightly smaller, appearing to reflect Mexican Toltec architectural influences. Begun between 1020 and 1050 AD, its 450–550 rooms shared just one great kiva
. Scientists estimate that it took 29,135 man-hours of construction to erect Chetro Ketl alone; Hewett estimated that it required the wood of 5,000 trees and 50 million stone blocks.The great house called Chetro Ketl was built 825-1125 CE. It features a 30 m (98 ft) colonnade that appears to reflect Mexican Toltec architectural influence. The spaces between the columns were later filled in with masonry, making the colonnade difficult to discern in photographs.
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state of New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...
. In the cliffs behind the ruins there are ancient stairways that lead to prehistoric roadways that connect to Pueblo Bonito
Pueblo Bonito
Pueblo Bonito, the largest and best known Great House in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, northern New Mexico, was built by ancestral Pueblo people and occupied between AD 828 and 1126....
. Chetro Ketl bears the typical D-shape of many other central complexes, but is slightly smaller, appearing to reflect Mexican Toltec architectural influences. Begun between 1020 and 1050 AD, its 450–550 rooms shared just one great kiva
Kiva
A kiva is a room used by modern Puebloans for religious rituals, many of them associated with the kachina belief system. Among the modern Hopi and most other Pueblo peoples, kivas are square-walled and underground, and are used for spiritual ceremonies....
. Scientists estimate that it took 29,135 man-hours of construction to erect Chetro Ketl alone; Hewett estimated that it required the wood of 5,000 trees and 50 million stone blocks.The great house called Chetro Ketl was built 825-1125 CE. It features a 30 m (98 ft) colonnade that appears to reflect Mexican Toltec architectural influence. The spaces between the columns were later filled in with masonry, making the colonnade difficult to discern in photographs.