Point Pueblo Ruin
Point Pueblo, a Chacoan Outlier, located within the City of Farmington, NM. The ruin is one of around a dozen large Ancestral Puebloan Pueblo II/Pueblo III habitations dating to between 900 CE and 1300 CE in the Middle San Juan River bottomland. The ruin site contains a great house and great kiva built in both local vernacular and stylized Chacoan Type II architecture. The presence of found Red Mesa Black-on-white pottery indicated the pueblo had southern influence from 850 CE to 1050 CE. The excavation has revealed continuous ritual placement of artifacts following remodeling of the great kiva floor and roof support piers, completed in the late 1100s CE. After the remodeling, use of the great kiva continued through the 1200s CE.
Elevation is 1624 meters (5330 feet) above sea level.
Coordinates: 36°42'36.2"N 108°10'21.4"W
36.710055, -108.172599
Materials: Stone, river cobbles, adobe mud mortar, wood log roof structure, mud/clay roofi over river saplings.
Photomontage of Point Pueblo , upon an aerial photo of the actual site, looking west toward present site of Farmington, NM.
Looking south.
Looking east.
The plan view of Point Pueblo montage onto photo of present day site with industrial roads showing graphic scale and orientation.
Data for CG model:
1. Wheelbarger, Linda, 2017. "POINT PURBLO, A GREAT HOUSE COMMUNITY IN THE MIDDLE SAN JUAN. The Albuquerque Archaeological Society Newsletter, Vol 52 No. 3, March, 2017.
2. Wheelbarger, Linda, 1999. TOTAH ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJEC RESEARCH DESIGN, submitted by San Juan College Cultural Resources Management Program, Linda Wheelbarger and Meredith Matters, Co-Directors, Report 98-SJC-63, May 25, 1999.
3. YouTube: The Point Great House: A Ceremonial Center of the Middle San Juan Region in NM w/ Linda Weelbarger, a webinar by Four Corners Lecture Series and the Hisatsinom Chapter of the Colorado Archaeological Society:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvQ2nN_E8II&t=507s