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Multi-periodSite Name: Blue J Alternative Name: LA 170609 , LA 170607
Country: United States Region: The Southwest Type: Ancient Village or Settlement

Latitude: 35.440000N  Longitude: 108.01W
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
1 Ambience:
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3Ordinary
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no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Ancient Village in McKinley County, New Mexico.
An unexcavated Ancestral Puebloan Community of over 50 households aproximately 70 miles south of Chaco Canyon. The layout, masonary fragments, and ceramic from previous surveys implies an 11th C date, concurrent with the Chaco culture.

Discovered by archaeologists in the 1970's a detailed survey was only conducted in the 2000s, revealing the extent of the community of separated roomblocks within an area of two square kilometers near a spring.

Occupation range is from AD600 and AD1150, with the greatest signs of occupation dating from the time of the "Chaco fluorescence". From the limited test investigations there was no sign of the "great house" or kiva structures one would expect from a Chaco influenced community, but recent aerial thermal surveys indicate a circular footprint that may be a kiva structure.

Note: Location does not represent the exact location of any features.

Sources:
Casanaa, Kantnerb, Wiewela, Cothrenc, Archaeological aerial thermography: a case study at the Chaco-era Blue J community, New Mexico, Journal of Archaeological Science, May 2004.

Note: ‘Hidden Architecture’ of 1,000-Year-Old Village Discovered in New Mexico. See comment.
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‘Hidden Architecture’ of 1,000-Year-Old Village Discovered in New Mexico. by bat400 on Tuesday, 08 April 2014
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For more than 40 years, archaeologists have been coaxing what they could from the traces of an ancient Puebloan settlement in New Mexico they call Blue J.

Buried under a thousand years’ worth of eroded stone and wind-blown sand, Blue J has intrigued experts with what little it has revealed: the outlines of nearly 60 households, situated around a series of open plazas, the masonry and building styles dating their construction to the 11th century.

Almost entirely unexcavated, the settlement sits just 70 kilometers south of Chaco Canyon — the nexus of Ancestral Pueblo culture — and was built during the heyday of Chaco’s widest influence.

And yet Blue J has been notable so far for what it appeared to lack: the monumental, ceremonial architecture that would signal its role as a Chacoan community.

No trace has been found of a multistory great house, for instance, which in other settlements was key to both ritual and trade; nor had experts detected any circular, subterranean kivas, where elites would have met for worship and decision-making.
New research of a thousand-year-old Puebloan settlement used a remote-controlled drone equipped with infrared sensors to discover ruins obscured by soil and sagebrush. (Photo courtesy Kantner and Casana)
“Because of the lack of visible Chacoan ceremonial architecture, such as a monumental great house or great kiva, I’ve actually argued that the people of Blue J may have resisted Chaco Canyon religious dominance by pointedly not building any Chaco-style architecture,” said Dr. John Kantner, an archaeologist with the University of North Florida.

But now Blue J appears to be giving up some of its secrets, and changing the perspective of Kantner and others, as new technology allows archaeologists to see under the desert floor.

Using a small, remote-controlled copter equipped with a heat-sensing camera, Kantner and his colleagues were able to discover ruins last June that for decades had been obscured by soil and sagebrush.

The features revealed by the copter — or drone, as they call it — may reshape archaeologists’ understanding of the size, scope, and cultural affiliations of the Blue J community.

For more, see Western Digs.
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