11 Facts About Pueblo Bonito

Pueblo Bonito is the largest and best-known great house in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, northern New Mexico.

The builders of Pueblo Bonito appear to have been well aware of this threat, but chose to build beneath the fractured stone anyway.

The rituals at Pueblo Bonito were performed with cylindrical vessels, human effigy vessels, and ceramic incense burners.

Pueblo Bonito filed a homestead entry on these ruins, which was invalidated by the General Land Office in 1904 when the federal government took formal possession of these lands.

Pueblo Bonito is divided into two sections by a precisely aligned wall which runs north to south through the central plaza.

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From this perspective, Pueblo Bonito could have accommodated several thousand inhabitants at its peak.

Examination of pack rat middens revealed that at the time that Pueblo Bonito was built, Chaco Canyon and the surrounding areas were wooded by trees such as ponderosa pines.

Multi-year field study, centered in Pueblo Bonito, was launched to gather new information on the economic conditions of the Bonito phase.

Room 33 is one of the most well-excavated areas of Pueblo Bonito and belongs to the earliest construction phase of the site in the 9th century.

Pueblo Bonito was buried with thousands of turquoise and shell beads and pendants, which originally formed necklaces, anklets and bracelets, making his the richest burial ever excavated in the Southwest.

Archaeologists have concluded that Pueblo Bonito was associated with an elite matriline, a powerful family who inherited their status from their mothers, for approximately 330 years.