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Bis Sa'Ani

Photos of Bis Sa'Ani ridgetop site: Otherhand.org.

Chaco Culture, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico; 1100 C.E.-1150 C.E.; located in Chaco Culture National Historic Park, approximatly 12.8 kilometerw (8 miles) northeast of Chaco Canyon "downtown" on a ridge to the south of the Escavada Wash

Elevaton is c. 1920 meters (6300 feet) above sea level.

Materials: mortarless stone walls, wood log roof structure, with mud/clay roof over river bank saplings.

Data for CG model:
1. Chaco Research Archive: www.chacoarchive.org/cra/
2. Archaeologist, Michael P. Marshall, provided the data for this model.
3. Marshall, Michael P. ,1982; Bis sa'ani Pueblo: An Example of Late Bonito Phase, Great House Architecture. In Bis sa'ani: A Late Bonito Phase Community on EscavadaWash, Northwest New Mexico, Volume 2 Part 1, edited by Cory Dale Breternitz, David E. Doyel,and Michael P. Marshall, pp. 169-358. NavajoNation Papers in Anthropology 14, Navajo Nation Cultural Resource Management Program,Window Rock, Arizona.

4. Judge, W. James, and Schelberg, John D., 1984. RECENT RESEARCH ON CHACO PREHISTORY, Reports of the Chaco Center, Number 8, published by Division of Cultural Research, U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1984

4. Powers, Robert P, and Gillespie, William B, and Lekson, Stephen H., 1983. THE OUTLIER SURVEY, A REGIONAL VIEW OF SETTLEMENT IN THE SAN JUAN BASIN, Reports of the Chaco Center, Number Three, published by Division of Cultural Research, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1983.

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