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. Located near Pueblo Bonito, it bears the typical D-shape of many other central complexes, but is slightly smaller. 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.^[1]

[edit] Etymology

The meaning of Chetro Ketl is disputed; an Indian guide for the 1849 Simpson expedition, Carravahal, claimed it meant rain pueblo (or rain village). A Navajo translation of Chetro Ketl means corner house.^[2]

[edit] Citations

[edit] References

• Fagan, B (2005), Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-517043-1.
• Strutin, M (1994), Chaco: A Cultural Legacy, Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, ISBN 1-877856-45-2.

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