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Exposed beams at Chetro Ketl

 

Exposed floor beams at Chetro Ketl, Chaco Culture National Historic Park

Beams like these, visible in a wall at Chetro Ketl, helped archeologists determine where the wood came from, and to determine the date when the structure was built. The research shows that to build the great houses of Chaco Canyon, over 200,000 trees were cut, dried, then hauled from the forested mountains, sixty miles away. The great houses were contructed over a three hundred year period, beginning around AD 850 to around AD 1150.

 

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