Ancient Pueblo Adobe Walls
by Mary Lee Dereske
Title
Ancient Pueblo Adobe Walls
Artist
Mary Lee Dereske
Medium
Photograph - Artistic Natural Photography
Description
These adobe walls (adobe is made of mud bricks made with straw) are not the original walls, but they mark the location of a 700 year old village of 1200 rooms along the Rio Grande river in New Mexico.
(From Wikipedia) Named for Vasquez de Coronado, who camped in the vicinity in 1540�1542, this archeological site is most noted for the ruins of Kuaua pueblo. The pueblo or village was settled about 1325 and abandoned toward the end of the 16th century. Kuaua was one of several Tiwa-speaking pueblos in the area when the conquistador Vasquez de Coronado arrived, and the village was almost certainly abandoned due to the after effects of the Tiguex War (February 1541).
The ruins of Kuaua Pueblo were excavated in the 1930s by an archeological team led by Edgar Lee Hewett and Marjorie F. Tichy (Lambert). The excavation revealed a south-to-north development over the village's three centuries of existence, as well as six kivas built in round, square and rectangular shapes. The site is particularly noted for a series of pre-contact (pre-1492) murals that were recovered from a square kiva in the pueblo's south plaza. These murals represent one of the finest examples of pre-contact Native American art to be found anywhere in North America. Fourteen of the restored murals are displayed in Coronado Historic Site's visitor center.
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January 16th, 2016
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