# Windes 1996: The Chaco Wood Project: The Chronometric Reappraisal of Pueblo Bonito

> Thomas C. Windes, Dabney Ford, 1996. 9 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The construction chronology of the largest great house.

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# The Chaco Wood Project: The Chronometric Reappraisal of Pueblo Bonito

Thomas C. Windes, Dabney Ford, 1996. _American Antiquity 61(2): 295-310_.

Inventories and analyses 4,294 pieces of wood remaining in Pueblo Bonito and dates its major construction episodes by tree rings to the mid-800s, AD 1047 to 1049 and AD 1077 to 1082, with many tied to decade-long wet periods.

**Great houses of Chaco Canyon** Articledoi: **[10.2307/282427](https://doi.org/10.2307/282427)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

The construction chronology of the largest great house.

## Cited by on this site 9 records

[Chaco tree-ring specimens](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/artifacts/ART0D9KW43A2DDR/chaco-tree-ring-specimens)

ART

[Pueblo Bonito](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/artifacts/ART0D9KVBE84NBE/pueblo-bonito)

ART

[Pueblo Bonito's construction episodes fall in wet decades, linking building to food surplus.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/evidence/EVD0D9KV80W7B6B/pueblo-bonitos-construction-episodes-fall-in-wet-decades)

Evidence

EVD

[Major construction at Pueblo Bonito](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/events/EVT0D9KTMFW7VZE/major-construction-at-pueblo-bonito)

EVT

[Second major construction episode at Pueblo Bonito](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/events/EVT0D9KTMQP1J7E/second-major-construction-episode-at-pueblo-bonito)

EVT

[The first great-house rooms are built at Pueblo Bonito](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/events/EVT0D9KTKGM66P1/the-first-great-house-rooms-are-built-at-pueblo-bonito)

EVT

[Thomas C. Windes](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/people/FIG0D9KTEMC5706/thomas-c-windes)

FIG

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

The mystery article

MYS

[Why did building at Chaco stop and its people leave?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/questions/QST0D9KTTK62C6X/why-did-building-at-chaco-stop-and-its-people-leave)

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## Cite it

```
Windes, T. C., & Ford, D. (1996). The Chaco Wood Project: The Chronometric Reappraisal of Pueblo Bonito. American Antiquity 61(2): 295-310. https://doi.org/10.2307/282427
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[Find it at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.2307/282427)

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