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| Hungo Pavi, meaning"Reed Spring Village," is a
medium-sized pueblo at the junction of Chaco and Mockingbird Canyons.
It may have been as much as four stories tall and contained 73
ground-floor rooms and two
kivas. Tree-ring dating has shown that Hungo Pavi may have been built around 943 to 1047 A.D. The ruin lies at the base of a prehistoric stairway. The stairway climbs up the mesa to a broad ancient road that then connects to the extensive Chacoan road system. |
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The thick walls of the Chacoan buildings were made of an inner core of rubble and stones laid in adobe mortar faced with a veneer of Chacoan masonry. The veneer consisted of rows of larger stone blocks alternating with several rows of smaller stone layers to form patterns. The patterns varied with each new construction period and remodel. |
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