# A ceremonial and pilgrimage centre with a small permanent population, filled at gatherings and supplied from…

> Most likely: A ceremonial and pilgrimage centre with a small permanent population, filled at gatherings and supplied from outside.

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Answer · Great houses of Chaco Canyon

# A ceremonial and pilgrimage centre with a small permanent population, filled at gatherings and supplied from…

A ceremonial and pilgrimage centre with a small permanent population, filled at gatherings and supplied from outside.

**Most likely** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Most likely** Its tests partly supported it: two pieces of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Few great-house rooms show the hearths, middens and wear of year-round households.
- Food, timber and goods arrived in pulses tied to gatherings.
- The canyon's own farmland cannot feed the population the buildings could hold.

## What would rule it out

- Room-by-room evidence of year-round domestic use across most great-house rooms, with local food production sufficient for the implied population.

## Evidence 2 for · 1 against

[All the great-house timber and much other material was brought from 75 to 100 km away.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/evidence/EVD0D9KTVAM1X4N/all-the-great-house-timber-and-much-other-material-was)

Established

FOR

[The canyon floor could grow maize for about 1,000 people at most, and small game could not supply a…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/evidence/EVD0D9KTV2T7A46/the-canyon-floor-could-grow-maize-for-about-1-000-people-at)

Suggestive

FOR

[Pollen and plant remains point to centuries of continuous local farming and woodcutting, which Lentz and…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/evidence/EVD0D9KTVJE2HBQ/pollen-and-plant-remains-point-to-centuries-of-continuous)

Suggestive

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[What was Chaco Canyon?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/questions/QST0D9KTSC476X2/what-was-chaco-canyon)

Most likelyThe seat of a hereditary elite whose house at Pueblo Bonito controlled ritual and long-distance exchange

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). A ceremonial and pilgrimage centre with a small permanent population, filled at gatherings and supplied from… [Answer ANS0D9KTTV06WWN]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D9KTTV06WWN
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