Photo taken March 14, 2015. Settings are f/4.5 for 1/1250th at ISO 200 and pushed +0.7 step at 18mm focal length, and Hand held, adjusted for lighting in Lightroom and color correction in Photoshop. Pueblo Bonito is the most thoroughly investigated and celebrated cultural site in Chaco Canyon. Planned and constructed in stages between AD 850 to AD 1150 by ancestral Puebloan peoples, this was the center of the Chacoan world. That world eventually covered a vast area of the present-day Southwest, including the San Juan Basin of New Mexico, and portions of Colorado, Utah, and Arizona. For over 300 years, Chacoan Culture united many diverse peoples within its sphere of influence. Pueblo Bonito (Spanish for “beautiful town”) is the best known of all Chacoan great houses. Located near the center of a cluster of great and small houses sometimes referred to as “Downtown Chaco,” the surrounding great houses include Chetro Ketl to the east, Pueblo del Arroyo to the west, Kin Kletso to the northwest, Kin Sabe to the southwest, and Casa Rinconada to the south. Bonito is also about 0.6 miles (1.0 km.) south of Pueblo Alto and New Alto. Although the footprint of Pueblo Bonito is slightly smaller in area than Chetro Ketl, this D-shaped great house is the biggest of all Chacoan great houses with 32 kivas, 3 great kivas, and over 350 ground-floor rooms. Two large refuse mounds lie just south of the pueblo. Pueblo Bonito rose four stories along its north arc of rooms while rooms facing the plaza were primarily single-story. Intervening room rows were two- and three-stories tall, creating a roof terrace that rose in height from the plaza to the back rooms. The plaza was closed on the south side by a row of rooms, and two partially-walled refuse mounds lay just outside the plaza enclosure. At least one Chacoan road approaches the building from the north, and there is good evidence for a road linking Pueblo Bonito with Casa Rinconada, the isolated great kiva on the opposite side of the canyon (Vivian and Hilpert 2002). Pueblo Bonito has been the object of two major excavation programs. The Hyde Exploring Expedition, sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History and directed by George Pepper and Richard Wetherill, excavated portions of Pueblo Bonito between 1986 and 1900, uncovering approximately 189 masonry rooms and several kivas. Neil Judd then conducted work in other parts of the building for the National Geographic Society from 1921 to 1927. Drs. Patricia Crown and Wirt Wills recently re-examined the Bonito mounds as part of the Chaco Stratigraphy Project. A further aspect that supports the centrality of Pueblo Bonito in the Chaco Canyon region is the presence of luxury goods imported through long-distance trade. Turquoise and shell inlays, copper bells, incense burners, and marine shell trumpets, as well as cylindrical vessels and macaw skeletons have been found in tombs and rooms within the site. These items arrived at Chaco and Pueblo Bonito through a sophisticated system of roads that connect some of the main great houses across the landscape and whose function and significance have always puzzled archaeologists. These long-distance items speak for a highly specialized elite living at Pueblo Bonito, probably involved in rituals and collective ceremonies. Archaeologists believe that the power of the people living at Pueblo Bonito came from its centrality in the sacred landscape of ancestral Puebloans and their unifying role in the ritual life of the Chacoan peoples. Recent chemical analyses on some of the cylindrical vessels found at Pueblo Bonito have shown traces of cacao. This plant not only comes from southern Mesoamerica, thousands of miles south of Chaco Canyon, but its consumption is historically linked to elite ceremonies. How about that! Even the Chacoans liked chocolate.
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HCAA GENERAL MEETING, May 16, 2015, 12:30pm Lecture Title: Mexican Influence in Mimbres Culture of Southwest New Mexico and Beyond Speaker: Harry Shafer, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus, Texas A&M University Location: Riverside Nature Center – 150 Francisco Lemos, Kerrville, Texas 78028 Abstract: The Mimbres culture of southwest New Mexico is best known for its exquisite painted
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"It took me almost 2 months doing this project "Princesas a la Mexicana".
Ideas to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, and why we should celebrate of the influence of Mexican Culture in the U.S.
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Share the LoveHacienda-style homes are known for their rustic elegance, warmth, and rich historical influence. Originating from Spanish and Mexican architecture, the hacienda design blends natural materials, earthy tones, and...
Religion plays a huge role in the lives of Mexican artisans. Over 90% are Catholic but that doesn't account for the importance of indigenous beliefs, which influence so many Mexican folk arts. The Virgin of Guadalupe, milagros, trees of life, Huichol ojos de dios, sacred hearts and images are all artistic motifs used i
Clara Porset is known for designing a famous Mexican chair. A show at the Art Institute of Chicago looks at how her influence extended far beyond that
Harry's Cali-Style is a Californian restaurant with a big Mexican influence. Found in the heart of Hayles Foundry highstreet this wonderful food bistro
open june 15 - october 7 2018, frida escobedo has designed the serpentine pavilion 2018 as a blur of mexican architectural influence and british heritage.
Religion plays a huge role in the lives of Mexican artisans. Over 90% are Catholic but that doesn't account for the importance of indigenous beliefs, which influence so many Mexican folk arts. The Virgin of Guadalupe, milagros, trees of life, Huichol ojos de dios, sacred hearts and images are all artistic motifs used i
Religion plays a huge role in the lives of Mexican artisans. Over 90% are Catholic but that doesn't account for the importance of indigenous beliefs, which influence so many Mexican folk arts. The Virgin of Guadalupe, milagros, trees of life, Huichol ojos de dios, sacred hearts and images are all artistic motifs used i
Kahlo Rounded is a new version that plays hipster style with a Latin flavor. It was inspired by the strong influence of Mexican decorative elements as you ca...
Though the show is presented coolly enough as a reassessment of the influence Mexican artists had on North American art, I could not greet “Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art" with detachment. The three Mexican muralists central to the show—Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and José Clemente Orozco—were touchstones for my lefty artist father. A number of my father's old buddies and teachers from the American Artists School—where a free art education was briefly to be had, between 1936 and 1941, courtesy of the John Reed Club—are in the show.
Mexican painter Mariana Palova finds within the positive a living and colorful metamorphosis- the essence of her own cosmogony. Playing with the influence of her experiences and her transformations,
