Pueblo Alto ("High Village" in Spanish) is anAncestral Puebloangreat house and archaeological site located inChaco Culture National Historical Park in northwesternNew Mexico in the United States.
Pueblo Alto is located at the top of amesa near the middle of Chaco Canyon, 0.6 miles (0.97 km) fromPueblo Bonito. Its location made the community visible to most of the inhabitants of theSan Juan Basin; indeed, it was only 2.3 miles (3.7 km) north ofTsin Kletsin, on the opposite side of the canyon.
Begun between AD 1020 and 1050, the complex comprises 89 rooms in a single-story layout.Storerooms at Pueblo Alto opened to the outside rather than into the interior rooms.
Pueblo Alto shares its mesa with another great house,Nuevo Alto, both of which are now protected within the borders ofChaco Culture National Historical Park.
Research suggests that as few as five to twenty families lived in the complex; this may imply that Pueblo Alto served a primarily non-residential role.[1] The community was the center of abead- andturquoise-processing industry that influenced the development of all villages in the canyon.Chert tool production was also common. There was a hugemidden containingpottery and chert, most of which came from the Chuska area 70 km (43 mi) to the west.
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