# Pueblo Bonito

> About 800 rooms on about 3 acres, with two great kivas and more than thirty smaller kivas. Part of the building was crushed by the fall of Threatening…

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**ART** 0D9KVBE84NBE·Artifact · object

# Pueblo Bonito

PhotographCC BY-SA 4.0Built in stages from the mid-800s to the early 1100s; main episodes 1047 to 1049 and 1077 to 1082

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[![Pueblo Bonito: photograph](https://mysteriesdept.com/media/folio/chaco-canyon-a-pueblo-bonito-m1)](https://mysteriesdept.com/media/folio/chaco-canyon-a-pueblo-bonito-m1?w=2000)

Pueblo Bonito: photograph

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About 800 rooms on about 3 acres, with two great kivas and more than thirty smaller kivas. Part of the building was crushed by the fall of Threatening Rock in January 1941. Its excavation records are divided between the American Museum of Natural History (Hyde Exploring Expedition) and the Smithsonian (Judd); the Chaco Research Archive brings many of them together.

ToranTarzan, 1047. CC BY-SA 4.0

## Copies 4

**Document** Chaco Research Archive and LTRR · chacoarchive.org · not statedPrimary source: [Tree-Ring Databases (CRA Tree-Ring Database and 2015 LTRR great house specimen database)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D9KT3561VV0/tree-ring-databases-cra-tree-ring-database-and-2015-ltrr)2 steps from the original

[Where it's published](https://www.chacoarchive.org/cra/chaco-resources/tree-ring-database)

**Photograph** ToranTarzan · commons.wikimedia.org · CC BY-SA 4.01 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pueblo_Bonito,_Chaco_Canyon.tif)

**Photograph** JacobCarr06 · commons.wikimedia.org · CC BY 4.01 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pueblo-Bonito-from-far-away.png)

**Photograph** MARELBU · commons.wikimedia.org · CC BY 3.01 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chaco_Culture_National_Historical_Park_-_Pueblo_Bonito,_New_Mexico,_US_-_panoramio_(1).jpg)

## Where it was made

[Pueblo Bonito](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0D9KTBPM631M/pueblo-bonito) · Great house

## Sources 3

- [Chaco Brief History](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D9KT25Y7TW6/chaco-brief-history)_SRC_
- [Pueblo Bonito](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D9KT2NJ5FBV/pueblo-bonito)_SRC_
- [The Chaco Wood Project: The Chronometric Reappraisal of Pueblo Bonito](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D9KT2XC3XB7/the-chaco-wood-project-the-chronometric-reappraisal-of)_SRC_

## Cite it

```
Mysteries Department. (2026). Pueblo Bonito [Artifact ART0D9KVBE84NBE]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0D9KVBE84NBE
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Key

**ART** 0D9KVBE84NBE

Kind

Object

Held by

National Park Service, Chaco Culture National Historical Park (in situ)

Dated

built in stages from the mid-800s to the early 1100s; main episodes 1047 to 1049 and 1077 to 1082; excavated 1896 to 1900 (Hyde Exploring Expedition) and 1921 to 1927 (Judd)

Licence

CC BY-SA 4.0

Place

[Pueblo Bonito](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0D9KTBPM631M/pueblo-bonito)

Part of

[Great houses of Chaco Canyon](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon)

The record

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