Sapawe'uinge ("Place of the Rushing Waters") Pueblo Ruin
Tewa Culture ancestral village, occupied from 1350 C.E. to 1550 C.E.; located on a terrace on the west bank of the El Rito River, about 1km south of El Rito (the southern one), New Mexico.
Location coordinates: 36°17'57.5"N 106°09'27.4"W
36.299298, -106.157600
Elevation is 1992 meters (6537 feet) above sea level.
Materials: adobe walls, wood log roof structure, with mud/clay roof.
Photomontage of Sapawe'uinge Pueblo CG model upon aerial photo of the actual site, looking southwest toward Abiquiu village and the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico.
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Data for CG model:
1. Morgan, William N., 1994. ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE OF THE SOUTHWEST, University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas.
2. Windes, Thomas C., and McKenna, Peter J. , 2018; A Reconnaissance of the Archaeology of Sapawe, an Ancestral Tewa Village in the Rio Chama Valley, Northern New Mexico, Papers of the Archaeological Society of New Mexico, Volume 44, 2018
1. Morgan, William N., 1994. ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE OF THE SOUTHWEST, University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas.
2. Windes, Thomas C., and McKenna, Peter J. , 2018; A Reconnaissance of the Archaeology of Sapawe, an Ancestral Tewa Village in the Rio Chama Valley, Northern New Mexico, Papers of the Archaeological Society of New Mexico, Volume 44, 2018
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