Sand Canyon Pueblo

San Juan Ancestral Pueblo, from 1000 C.E. to 1300 C.E. (post-Mesa Verde), located near Cortez, Colorado.

Elevation is 2077 meters (6817 feet) above sea level.

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

Data for CG model:
1. Kuckelman, Kristin A., editor, 2007: The Archaeology of Sand Canyon Pueblo: Intensive Excavations at a Late-Th irteenth-Century Village in Southwestern Colorado. Digital document at http://www.crowcanyon.org/sandcanyon.
2. Aerial photographs for montage by photographer, Adriel Heisey in collaboration with Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.