American Southwest 2013 - #1 Aztec Ruins, New Mexico

Aztec was one of the largest Ancestral Pueblo settlements in the Southwest. It is located between two major centers—Chaco Canyon to the south and Mesa Verde to the north. Both areas strongly influenced the local inhabitants at different times, but the exact nature and extent of the interac¬tion has yet to be sorted out. The west pueblo, containing about 400 rooms, was the largest of the great houses. Several hundred people may have lived there. Hundreds of rooms formed massive walls that were set at right angles around a central plaza. A low row of single-story rooms on the south completed the enclosure. Rooftops once stepped upward in three sun-facing tiers, reaching nearly thirty-feet high on the north wall.

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