Kin Kletso

Kin Kletso is a Chacoan Anasazi great house and notable archaeological site located in Chaco Canyon, a canyon in the U.S. state of New Mexico. It was a medium-sized complex located 0.5 miles (0.8 m) west of Pueblo Bonito; it shows strong evidence of construction and occupation by Pueblo peoples from the northern San Juan Basin. Its rectangular shape and design is related to the Pueblo II cultural group, rather than the Pueblo III style or its Chacoan variant. It contains around 55 rooms, four ground-floor kivas, and a two-story cylindrical tower that may have functioned as a kiva or religious center. Evidence of an obsidian production industry were discovered here. The village was erected between 1125 AD and 1130 AD.harvnb|Fagan|2005|p=11.]

Etymology

"Kin Kletso" means "Yellow House" in the Navajo language.

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References

* Harvard reference
Last1 = Fagan
Given1 = B
Year = 2005
Title = Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society
Publisher = Oxford University Press
ID = ISBN 0-19-517043-1.