Kin Kletso
Encyclopedia
Kin Kletso is a Chacoan Anasazi great house and notable archaeological site located in Chaco Culture National Historical Park
, located 25 miles southwest of Nageezi, New Mexico
, U.S.
. It was a medium-sized great house located 0.5 miles (0.8 m) west of Pueblo Bonito
; it shows strong evidence of construction and occupation by Pueblo peoples who migrated to Chaco from the northern San Juan Basin in the time period of 1125 to 1200 (McElmo Period of Chacoan Architecture). From its masonry work, rectangular shape and design Kletso is identified as Pueblo III
architecture by prominent Chaco archaeologists Steve Lekson and Tom Windes . They also argue that this great house was only occupied by one or two households. Fagen writes that Kletso contained around 55 rooms, four ground-floor kivas, and a two-story cylindrical tower that may have functioned as a kiva or religious center. Evidence of an obsidian
production industry were discovered here. The house was erected between 1125 AD and 1130 AD.
.
Chaco Culture National Historical Park
Chaco Culture National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park hosting the densest and most exceptional concentration of pueblos in the American Southwest. The park is located in northwestern New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington, in a remote canyon cut by the Chaco Wash...
, located 25 miles southwest of Nageezi, New Mexico
Nageezi, New Mexico
Nageezi is a census-designated place in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 296 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Farmington Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Nageezi is located at ....
, U.S.
United States
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. It was a medium-sized great house located 0.5 miles (0.8 m) west of Pueblo Bonito
Pueblo Bonito
Pueblo Bonito, the largest and best known Great House in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, northern New Mexico, was built by ancestral Pueblo people and occupied between AD 828 and 1126....
; it shows strong evidence of construction and occupation by Pueblo peoples who migrated to Chaco from the northern San Juan Basin in the time period of 1125 to 1200 (McElmo Period of Chacoan Architecture). From its masonry work, rectangular shape and design Kletso is identified as Pueblo III
Pueblo III Era
The Pueblo III Era, AD 1150 to 1350, was the third period, also called the "Great Pueblo period" when Ancient Pueblo People lived in large cliff-dwelling, multi-storied pueblo, or cliff-side talus house communities...
architecture by prominent Chaco archaeologists Steve Lekson and Tom Windes . They also argue that this great house was only occupied by one or two households. Fagen writes that Kletso contained around 55 rooms, four ground-floor kivas, and a two-story cylindrical tower that may have functioned as a kiva or religious center. Evidence of an obsidian
Obsidian
Obsidian is a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed as an extrusive igneous rock.It is produced when felsic lava extruded from a volcano cools rapidly with minimum crystal growth...
production industry were discovered here. The house was erected between 1125 AD and 1130 AD.
Etymology
Kin Kletso is a garbled mispronunciation of , meaning Yellow House in the Navajo languageNavajo language
Navajo or Navaho is an Athabaskan language spoken in the southwestern United States. It is geographically and linguistically one of the Southern Athabaskan languages .Navajo has more speakers than any other Native American language north of the...
.