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| Aztec Monument is not about the Aztec people, it is about the ancestral pueblo people who lived here from about the year 1109 to the year 1275. It is an outlier of Chaco Canyon. |
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| Aztec Ruins National Monument has a demonstration garden. Growing in the garden were corn, beans, squash, sunflowers and red amaranth (as pictured above). Amaranth is a grain. |
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| In 1934 Earl Morris, a scientist working for the American Museum of Natural History, began reconstructing the Kiva, or gathering place at Aztec Ruins. It was partially built underground and measured about 50 feet in diameter. |
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| The reconstructed Kiva, or gathering space is considered sacred by the descendants of the ancestral pueblo people. |
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| The roof of the kiva weighs about 95 tons! |
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| The areas around the great kiva have been partially unearthed. In the photo above, you can see two smaller kivas. |
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| This sign greets visitors who want to visit the parts of the ruins that a partially underground. |
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| Many of the underground rooms had wooden beams in the ceilings that showed evidence of campfires. |
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| The dark band running across this wall is composed of sandstone blocks that are green. Archeologists are not sure of its significance. |
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