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Aztec Ruins (Ancestral Puebloan great house, Animas River)

1100 – 1275
Native nationNorth America

A Chacoan-style great-house complex on the Animas River, built in the early-to-mid 12th century as Chaco Canyon's influence extended north, then remodeled and reoccupied in the 13th century by Mesa Verde-affiliated Puebloans before final abandonment; 19th-century settlers mistakenly attributed it to the Aztec.

Abandoned by the late 13th century as part of the region-wide Ancestral Puebloan migrations south to the Rio Grande and west to Hopi.

Borders in 1100 · drawn from 1 sourced border frame
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