Chaco Canyon
Chaco Culture National Historical Park is in north-western New Mexico and was the heart of the ancestral Puebloan culture between AD 850 and 1250. During that time they built monumental “great houses” from the yellow-orange sandstone that permeates the region, the largest of which is Pueblo Bonita which had more than 600 rooms and was inhabited by about 1000 people. Just to the East is another such house, Chetro Ketl and even more to the west.
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beautiful.
Has anyone seen the lines in the area?
They seem to form a pattern.
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Anthropologists say that the Chacoans had constructed many virtual roads connecting various settlements. (I say virtual roads because they’re probably more symbolic than anything–they go up and down cliffs in straight lines. I don’t know if they’re useful for actual travel. Some suggest they had spiritual significance.)
These lines may be those roads. I’m told they’re pretty easy to see from the air.
Very beautiful, I love to think about how peaceful it was there and the mystery that lingers in the air, I could have stayed there forever. Now, I can visit often.