Big House

Chaco Culture, Chaco Culture Influenced, New Mexico, Constructed 1060 C.E. - 1220 C.E.; located south of Ats'ee Nitsaa, approximately 32 kilometers (20 miles) west-south-west of Gallup, New Mexico.

Elevation is 2011 meters (6600 feet) above sea level.

Materials: mortarless stone walls, wood log roof structure, with mud/clay roof.

Data for CG model:
1.Fowler, Andrew P. and Stein, John R., 1992; The Anasazi Great House in Space, Time, and Paradigm, a paper in Doyal, David E., Editor; Anasazi Regional Organization and the Chaco System, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Anthropological Papers No. 5, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1992.
2. Topographic data from Google Earth.