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Site WatchSite Name: Aztec Ruins National Monument
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 9.835 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The Southwest Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Farmington, NM  Nearest Village: Aztec, NM
Latitude: 36.834500N  Longitude: 108.000253W
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.
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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Aztec Ruins National Monument
Aztec Ruins National Monument submitted by Creative Commons : Aztec Ruins National Monument is located in Northern New Mexico. It was home to the Ancestral Puebloans, who built and lived in the great houses here beginning in the mid 11th century until the late 13th century. The West Ruin, also called the Aztec West Great House, was three stories tall and contained over 500 rooms. ... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Village or Settlement in San Juan County, New Mexico.
Ancient villages and Settlements. Ancient roads. Ancient Temples. Artifacts.
The modern of village of Aztec, New Mexico, is the site of several closely spaced Ancestral Puebloan village “Great Houses” and smaller homesteads. The complex is considered to be a Chaco Canyon outlier.

The architecture, artifacts, and dates of occupation all indicate a close tie with Chaco. There are even the remains on an ancient roadway with one termination in Aztec which leads south to Chaco. The site lies on lower terraces of the Animas River, and was erroneously named by European settlers for the Aztec Empire which has no known connection.

The park contains a visitor's center with museum, multitude of archaeological sites, only a few of which are accessible to the general public. The highlight of the park is the excavated West Ruin pueblo site, dating to 1110 and occupied for approximately 200 years. The lower stories of this Great House and the artifacts left within it were protected as the upper stories collapsed into the building’s apartments. A guided tour takes visitors through portions of the stabilized ruin. Outside in the central courtyard is a reconstructed Great Kiva on the site of the original. Other unexcavated Kivas and buildings may be seen from a distance.

Managed by the US National Park system, Aztec contains only 319 acres and is surrounded by both a modern village and natural gas rigs, but the rugged New Mexico landscape of desert scrub, mesa, and vegetation clinging to river valleys provides a home to a variety of wild birds and reptiles. The location is given for the park visitor’s center and museum. The park has a picnic area, but no camping facilities.

[Information from National Park Service website, among other sources.]

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Note: Ancestral Puebloan Site already surrounded by drilling may face additional extraction. See comment.
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Aztec Ruins National Monument
Aztec Ruins National Monument submitted by Creative Commons : Aztec Ruins National Monument is located in Northern New Mexico. It was home to the Ancestral Puebloans, who built and lived in the great houses here beginning in the mid 11th century until the late 13th century. The West Ruin, also called the Aztec West Great House, was three stories tall and contained over 500 rooms. Image copyright... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Aztec Ruins National Monument
Aztec Ruins National Monument submitted by Flickr : Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec, New Mexico The Aztec Ruins National Monument preserves ancestral Pueblo structures in north-western New Mexico, United States, located close to the town of Aztec and northeast of Farmington, near the Animas River. Salmon Ruins and Heritage Park, with more ancestral Pueblo structures, lies a short distance to the south, just west of Bloomfield near the San Juan... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Aztec Ruins National Monument
Aztec Ruins National Monument submitted by Creative Commons : Aztec Ruins National Monument is located in Northern New Mexico. It was home to the Ancestral Puebloans, who built and lived in the great houses here beginning in the mid 11th century until the late 13th century. The West Ruin, also called the Aztec West Great House, was three stories tall and contained over 500 rooms. ... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Aztec Ruins National Monument
Aztec Ruins National Monument submitted by Creative Commons (Vote or comment on this photo)

Aztec Ruins National Monument
Aztec Ruins National Monument submitted by Creative Commons : Aztec Ruins National Monument is located in Northern New Mexico. It was home to the Ancestral Puebloans, who built and lived in the great houses here beginning in the mid 11th century until the late 13th century. The West Ruin, also called the Aztec West Great House, was three stories tall and contained over 500 rooms. Image copyrigh...

Aztec Ruins National Monument
Aztec Ruins National Monument submitted by Creative Commons : The Great Kiva was reconstructed in 1934 with funding by the Public Works Administration (WPA). Aztec Ruins National Monument is located in Northern New Mexico. It was home to the Ancestral Puebloans, who built and lived in the great houses here beginning in the mid 11th century until the late 13th century. The West Ruin, also called the Aztec West Great House, was three stories tall and co...

Aztec Ruins National Monument
Aztec Ruins National Monument submitted by Creative Commons : Aztec Ruins National Monument - Aztec, New Mexico Image copyright: Dougtone (Doug Kerr), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Aztec Ruins National Monument
Aztec Ruins National Monument submitted by Creative Commons : Aztec Ruins National Monument is located in Northern New Mexico. It was home to the Ancestral Puebloans, who built and lived in the great houses here beginning in the mid 11th century until the late 13th century. The West Ruin, also called the Aztec West Great House, was three stories tall and contained over 500 rooms. ...

Aztec Ruins National Monument
Aztec Ruins National Monument submitted by Creative Commons : Aztec Ruins National Monument is located in Northern New Mexico. It was home to the Ancestral Puebloans, who built and lived in the great houses here beginning in the mid 11th century until the late 13th century. The West Ruin, also called the Aztec West Great House, was three stories tall and contained over 500 rooms. ...

Aztec Ruins National Monument
Aztec Ruins National Monument submitted by Creative Commons

Aztec Ruins National Monument
Aztec Ruins National Monument submitted by Flickr : Inside the Great Kiva This is the inside of the Great Kiva at the Aztec Ruins. This area was excavated in 1921 by Earl H. Morris and reconstructed in 1934. Who knows how truly accurate this depiction is. This is also the only reconstructed kiva in all of the Southwest. This is area #14 on the model. Image copyright: Travis S. (Travis), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their ...

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Drilling, Mining In Store For Iconic Southwest Park by bat400 on Wednesday, 07 January 2009
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From A US Civil Servant Watchdog Group --

DRILLING AND MINING IN STORE FOR TWO ICONIC SOUTHWEST PARKS — Falling Commodity Prices Brings Brief Reprieve for Petrified Forest and Aztec Ruins

Washington, DC — Drilling and mining may soon be affecting Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona and Aztec Ruins National Monument in New Mexico, according to an internal Interior Department document released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Only plummeting commodity prices caused by the current recession have delayed groundbreaking for new natural gas wells and potash mining in or adjacent to the parks.

The Interior briefing for Assistant Secretary Lyle Laverty dated October 5, 2008 outlines pending plans for subsurface extraction on or adjacent to the two parks:

* Aztec Ruins National Monument (NM) “Manana Inc., an energy company, has provided documentation of its legal right to conduct operations in the monument and its intent to drill a Fruitland Coal natural gas well within the monument boundary. It is proposing a location adjacent to the North Ruins, the third largest archeological site in the monument. The monument is conducting internal scoping and considering other possible locations that might be recommended as alternatives. The monument is also processing requests from ConocoPhillips in their interest to develop two new wells, and from XTO Energy, Inc, to extend a gas gathering line to tie in with an existing line already within the monument.”

For more, see Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility website.
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