# Routes for moving timber, food and goods between the canyon and its source areas.

> Most likely: Routes for moving timber, food and goods between the canyon and its source areas.

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# Routes for moving timber, food and goods between the canyon and its source areas.

Routes for moving timber, food and goods between the canyon and its source areas.

**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

- Roads lead toward the timber and food source areas (Chuskas, Zuni Mountains, Mount Taylor).
- Wear and artefact scatters are heaviest on roads to source areas.

## What would rule it out

- Road networks that do not connect the canyon with any source area of its timber or food.

## Evidence 2 for · 1 against

[Importing food for 2,300 people would take up to 18,000 foot trips.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/evidence/EVD0D9KV1DY7X9H/importing-food-for-2-300-people-would-take-up-to-18-000-foot)

Suggestive

FOR

[More than 200,000 beams were carried from mountains 75 to 100 km away.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/evidence/EVD0D9KV1641ZFJ/more-than-200-000-beams-were-carried-from-mountains-75-to)

Established

FOR

[The roads are about 9 metres wide and ramrod-straight, far more than foot traffic needs.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/evidence/EVD0D9KV1NR50WF/the-roads-are-about-9-metres-wide-and-ramrod-straight-far)

Suggestive

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[What were the Chacoan roads for?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/questions/QST0D9KTSVR1WA0/what-were-the-chacoan-roads-for)

Most likelyCeremonial roads laid out to directions, sacred places and sky events, expressing a cosmology rather than…

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Routes for moving timber, food and goods between the canyon and its source areas. [Answer ANS0D9KV0YA1YHM]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D9KV0YA1YHM
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