Earth:Shabik'eshchee Village
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Shabik'eshchee Village is an archeological site located atop Chacra Mesa, New Mexico. Covering 20 acres (8.1 ha), the pit-house settlement was occupied c. 500–700 by Basketmaker III peoples. Discovered by Frank Roberts in 1926, the site is one of the earliest settlements in Chaco Canyon.[1] Shabik'eshchee Village contained one hundred pit houses and a community great kiva.[2] It is located approximately 9 miles (14 km) east of Pueblo Bonito.[3]
References
- ↑ Fagan 2005, pp. 80–82.
- ↑ Windes 2004, p. 15.
- ↑ Vivian & Hilpert 2012, p. 241.
- Bibliography
- Fagan, Brian (2005). Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-517043-6.
- Vivian, R. Gwinn; Hilpert, Bruce (2012), The Chaco Handbook: An Encyclopedic Guide (2 ed.), University of Utah Press, ISBN 978-1-60781-195-4
- Windes, Thomas C. (2004). "The Rise of Early Chacoan Great Houses". in Nobel, David Grant. In Search of Chaco: New Approaches to an Archaeological Enigma. School of American Research Press. ISBN 978-1-930618-42-8. https://archive.org/details/insearchofchacon00nobl.
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