Nuevo Alto
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Nuevo Alto is a Chacoan Anasazi great house and notable archaeological site located in Chaco Canyon, a canyon in the U.S.
state of New Mexico
. It was built on the north mesa near Pueblo Alto
, and was founded in the late 12th century, a time when the Chacoan population was declining in the canyon; it was part of a new wave, beginning in the 1080s, of great houses that were more compact and had different architecture than previous complexes. None of the ancient Chacoan roads leads to Nuevo Alto.
United States
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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...
. It was built on the north mesa near Pueblo Alto
Pueblo Alto
Pueblo Alto is a Chacoan Anasazi great house and archaeological site located in Chaco Canyon, northwestern New Mexico, United States. The complex, comprising 89 rooms in a single-story layout, is located on a mesa top near the middle of Chaco Canyon; 0.6 miles from Pueblo Bonito, it was...
, and was founded in the late 12th century, a time when the Chacoan population was declining in the canyon; it was part of a new wave, beginning in the 1080s, of great houses that were more compact and had different architecture than previous complexes. None of the ancient Chacoan roads leads to Nuevo Alto.