Kuaua (Tiwa for "Evergreem")
Rio Grande Ancestral Puebloan Culture (Tiwa), occupied between 1310 C.E. until the Spanish siege in 1540-41 C.E.; located in Coronado State Monument, Bernalillo, New Mexico. The Pueblos of Taos, Picuris, Sandia, and Isleta consider Kuaua to be an ancestral village; occupied from 1325 CE through 1590 CE; located on Santa Ana Pueblo land on the west side of the Rio Grande just west of Bernalillo, New Mexico.
Location coordinates: 35°19'49.5"N 106°33'27.5"W
35.330418, -106.557628
Elevation is 1554 meters (5099 feet) above sea level.
Materials: adobe walls, wood log roof structure, with mud/clay roof.
Photomontage of CG model of Kuaua Pueblo upon aerial photo of actual site looking east over the Rio Grande, modern city of Bernalillo, New Mexico, and the Sandia Mountains beyond.
Data for CG model:
1. Morgan, William N., 1994. ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE OF THE SOUTHWEST, University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas.
2. Preicel, Robert, and Matero, Frank, 1985, Placemaking on the Northern Rio Grande: A View from Kuaua Pueblo in Chapter 4 of Archaeologies of Placemaking: Monuments, Memories, and Engagement in Native North America by Patricia E. Rubertone (see: https://www.academia.edu/9653810/Placemaking_on_the_Northern_Rio_Grande_A_View_from_Kuaua_Pueblo)
