AZTEC RUINS National Monument | Exploring a Great Kiva as it Looked Before | New Mexico

New Mexico has no shortage of Ancestral Puebloan structures to explore, but one stands above the rest offering the chance to turn back time and step into a great kiva as would have been used centuries before. This is not to be missed!

Located in northern New Mexico stands Aztec Ruins National Monument. This near millennia-old great house illustrates how the Ancestral Puebloan people lived.

This park may be smaller than other nearby parks, however, Aztec Ruins have something one won't see elsewhere - a reconstructed Great Kiva. Visitors can step inside and down into the shaded kiva and into the past. Whereas other kivas one may see are open round pit-like structures in the ground, this great kiva has plastered and painted walls, with completed ladders and a wooden roof.

Elsewhere one may see T-shaped doors, intact rooms, and original wood. There are several rooms where one must duck very low to enter.

In total, the trail is a half-mile through the grounds.


VIDEO FILMED: 07/24/2022

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⚪ AZTEC RUINS NATIONAL MONUMENT - https://www.nps.gov/azru/index.htm
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00:00 Who Lived at Aztec Ruins?
04:55 Reconstructed Great Kiva
08:49 Comparison to Chaco Canyon
13:21 Walking Through the Rooms

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