Pueblo Bonito

Date: 1075 - 1115 CE
Image View Description: Interior of Room at Marker 18
Style/Period: Native Chaco Style
Location: Nageezi (New Mexico)
Notes: The corner door in the southeast-facing corner doorway functioned as an astrological marker. When the sun rises in the morning of the winter solstice, sunlight passes through the opening and strikes the opposite room behind it.
Image Source: Photography by Media Center for Art History, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Photographer: Brittne Rivera
Record ID: 1213_southwest2013_chacocanyon_vr_055


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