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Puerco Pueblo

Ancestral Puebloan Ruins from 1300 AD

Indian Ruin on Ninemile Wash, Puerco River on Puerco Pueblo Interpretive Trail in Mogollon Rim, Petrified Forest NP, Colorado Plateau near Pinta, AZ

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At its largest size, around 1300, Puerco Pueblo may have been home to about 200 people. The one-story high village of hand-shaped sandstone blocks was built around a rectangular plaza. The rooms were living quarters and storage, but most activity, like cooking and craftmaking, took place in the plaza. There were also several underground rooms, called kivas, where ceremonial practices took place. There were no doors or windows in the plaster-covered exterior walls of the pueblo. Entry into the village was by ladders over the wall and across the log, brush, and mud roofs of the room blocks.

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