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This great Kiva stands on top of a small hill and is partly above ground. Measuring 20 meters in diameter and 4 to 5 meters deep, making it one of the largest known great kivas. Kivas are ceremonial places in Puebloan culture, as well as symbols of the cosmos. At sunrise on the summer solstice, a beam of light from a northeastern opening in the kiva precisely illuminates a niche in the far wall. Chaco Culture National Historical Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Centre in New Mexico.

A spiral petroglyph at Chaco Culture National Historic Park in New Mexico. Visible from a walking trail in the park, are numerous petroglyphs aka rock art.. This spiral looks like it's been recently enhanced. The park is a major archeological site of the Puebloan culture, or Anasazi from around late 1000 - 1400 AD, and attracts visitors from all over the world.

Wooden beams support the doorway on the second floor with sandstone fragments pressed into the mortar joints. The sandstone slabs were thickly mortared and plastered with mud. Pueblo Bonito (Spanish for beautiful town) is the largest and best-known great house in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, northern New Mexico. It was built by the Ancestral Puebloans who occupied the structure between AD 828 and 1126.

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