The great adobe city of Paquimé in northern Chihuahua — a 2,000-room maze of multi-story rooms, a municipal water system, ballcourts, effigy mounds and pens for breeding scarlet macaws — that brokered trade in shell, copper and feathers between the Pueblo Southwest and Mesoamerica.
Paquimé was sacked and burned around 1450; the great house was never reoccupied, and the Casas Grandes world dissolved before the Spanish arrived.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Casas Grandes (Paquimé) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1200 · 1341.
An edited volume on Paquimé and the Casas Grandes regional system.
A synthesis of Paquime and its regional world by the leading modern excavators of Casas Grandes.