Aztec Ruins National Monument
Aztec Ruins National Monument
The Aztec Ruins National Monument preserves ancestral Pueblo structures in north-western New Mexico, United States, located close to the town of Aztec and northeast of Farmington, near the Animas River. Salmon Ruins and Heritage Park, with more ancestral Pueblo structures, lies a short distance to the south, just west of Bloomfield and near the San Juan River.
pueblo pottery
mono and metate for grinding grain
backstrap loom for weaving
The buildings date back to the 11th to 13th centuries, and the misnomer
attributing them to the Aztec civilization can be traced back to early American
settlers in the mid-19th century.
restored Kiva
Kiva interior
The site was declared "Aztec Ruin National Monument" on January 24, 1923, and
with a boundary change it was renamed "Ruins" on July 2, 1928. As an historical
property of the National Park Service the National Monument was administratively
listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. Aztec
Ruins was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites, as part of the
Chaco Culture National Historical Park,
on December 8, 1987.
Text from Wikipedia
Kiva
passageway to the interior
