STOP #3
The Anasazi occupied this site continuously for over 300 years. Archeologists know of several other room-blocks and a few pithouses in this area. This room-block was the last to be built.
The pattern seen here—a long arc of single-room houses—appeared after 800. Note the sunken floors.
Plan of early Pueblo, after AD 800.
These houses were built over shallow trenches. The walls were constructed using an interesting mixture of materials and techniques. Most were built of adobe, sometimes with stone slabs set upright along the base. Some were built of rough stones set in thick layers of mortar—the beginnings of true masonry, which the Anasazi would refine in the centuries to come.
STOP #4
Fire destroyed this entire block, and claimed a life. In one of these rooms, archeologists found the skeleton of an adult sprawled across the floor. An adobe wall had toppled onto the body, and it appeared that this person was overcome by flames before this hapless victim could escape the flames.
