Chetro Ketl is an Ancestral Puebloan great house and archeological site located in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico, United States. Construction on Chetro Ketl began c. 990 and was largely complete by 1075, with significant remodeling occurring in …

2023年3月25日 · Chetro Ketl is the second largest Chacoan great house. It covers more than 3 acres, and contains a great kiva and elevated kivas. As builders constructed second and third stories, they created an elevated plaza that stands 12 feet above the canyon floor.

2024年4月5日 · Chetro Ketl is the second largest Chacoan great house. It covers more than 3 acres, and contains a great kiva and elevated kivas. As builders constructed second and third stories, they created an elevated plaza that stands 12 feet above the canyon floor.

Chetro Ketl is the second largest great house in the canyon in number of rooms (approximately 400 ground and upper-story) and the largest in surface area (more than 5.7 acres or 2.3 hectares). The great house may have risen to four stories along areas of the north side.

Chetro Ketl, located near Pueblo Bonito, bears the typical 'D'-shape of many other central complexes. Begun between 1020 and 1050, its 450–550 rooms shared one great kiva. Experts estimate that it took 29,135 man-hours to erect Chetro Ketl alone; Hewett estimated that it took the wood of 5,000 trees and 50 million stone blocks. [61]

At nearly 3 acres, Chetro Ketl is considered the largest great house by area in Chaco Culture National Historical Park. A 0.5-mile trail guides visitors through the ruins of Chetro Ketl. Highlights of the tour include a well-preserved great kiva, elevated …

2020年11月27日 · Chetro Ketl is an archaeological site, and the ancient ruins of an Ancestral Puebloan settlement, located in the Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico, United States of America.

Chetro Ketl is the second-largest Chacoan great house. It covers more than 3 acres, and contains a great kiva and elevated kivas. As builders constructed second and third stories, they created an elevated plaza that stands 12 feet above the canyon floor.

Chetro Ketl is a first-order Chacoan great house and a key structure in “Downtown Chaco.” It is distinguished equally by its monumental dimensions and by its colonnade of stone piers, the only example in prehistoric North America and a tantalizing link with the Pre-Columbian architecture of …

2008年7月5日 · The hike begins at the Pueblo Bonito/Chetro Ketl parking area. There is a bathroom here, but no water, so make sure you've filled up your water bottle before leaving the Visitor's Center. Head north on the trail, away from Pueblo Bonito.