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Atsinna ("where pictures are on the rock")

Acoma Pueblo and Zuni Pueblo Joint Ancestral Pueblo, dates from 1275 C.E. through 1325 C.E.; located in El Morro National Monument, weat central New Mexico (south of Gallup). The soft stone cliffs below the mesatop ruins contain the pre-Contact carved symbols of indigenous people, and the grafitti signatures of many early explorers of the region, including New Mexico's first Spanish Governor, Don Juan de Onate.

Elevation is 2270 meters (7448 feet) above sea level.

Materials: stone walls, wood log roof structure, with sappling branches supporting mud/clay roof.

Data for CG model:
1.Morgan, William N., 1994. ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE OF THE SOUTHWEST, University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas.

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