Aztec Ruins National Monument Administrative History of an Archeological Preserve
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Click the above link to read the following chapters: The chapters include: 1 An Anasazi Village Misnamed Aztec
2 Earl Halstead Morris And The Aztec Ruins
3 Peeling Away Prehistory
4 A House In Ruins
5 A National Monument, Stillborn
6 The Decade Of Dissention, 1923-1933The
7 The Great Depression & Capital
Improvements
8 Miller Administration, 1937-1944
9 Satellite Attractions
10 The Mission of Mission 66
11 The Last Quarter Century And Beyond
12 Stabilization: The High Cost Of Water
13 Specimen Collections: Recent
Assessments And Their Significance For
Future Research
Did You Know?
Ancestral Pueblo peoples at Chaco Canyon and Chimney Rock used sun and shadows to track the changing of the seasons. Recent studies indicate the Great Kiva windows at Aztec were purposely aligned to solar and lunar events as well. Was this an astronomical observatory?