{FMT}Contents{\}
List of Appendixes 000
List of Figures 000
List of Tables 000
Acknowledgments 000
1 The Chaco Phenomenon and the Bluff Great House Project 000
Catherine M. Cameron
2 The Environmental and Physical Setting of the Bluff Great House Site
000
William E. Davis and Deborah A. Westfall
3 Chaco and Post-Chaco in the Northern San Juan Region 000
Catherine M. Cameron
4 A Brief Survey of Great Houses and Related Features in Southeastern
Utah 000
Winston B. Hurst and Jonathan D. Till
5 Great Houses in the Northern San Juan Region: The Architecture and
Stratigraphy of the Bluff Great House 000
Catherine M. Cameron, with contributions by Jonathan D. Till, Carolyn
C. Heitman, Winston B. Hurst, Deborah A. Westfall, and Phil R. Geib
6 Great Kivas in the Northern San Juan Region: The Architecture and
Stratigraphy of the Bluff Great Kiva 000
Catherine M. Cameron, with contributions by Christine G. Ward, Mark D.
Mitchell, and Mark C. Bond
7 Earthen Architecture in the Northern San Juan Region: The Bluff Great
House Terrace and Berm 000
Catherine M. Cameron, with contributions by Phil R. Geib
8 The Chaco Era in the Northern San Juan Region: Understanding the Bluff
Great House Site 000
Catherine M. Cameron
Notes 000
References 000
Index 000
{FMT}Appendixes{\}
The appendixes for this book are included on the accompanying compact disk.
1 Ceramic Analysis
Eric Blinman 000
2 Projectile points from the Bluff Great House
Catherine M. Cameron 000
3 Thoughts about Ground Stone from Bluff
Jenny L. Adams 000
4 Pollen, Macrofloral, and Coprolite Analysis of Samples from the Bluff
Great House Site, 42SA22674, Southeast UT 000
Linda Scott Cummings, Kathryn Puseman, and Jaime Dexter
5 Faunal Remains from Bluff Great House
Jonathan Driver, Carmen Tarcan, and Brooklynne "Tyr" Fothergill
6 Bone Tools from the Bluff Great House
Christine Dixon
7 A Preliminary Analysis of the Ornaments and Other Unusual Objects from
425a22674, the Bluff Great House Site
F. Joan Mathien
8 Tree-Ring Samples from the Bluff Great House
9 Bluff Great House Project Field Methods
Catherine M. Cameron
10 Bluff Great House Project Participants 1995--2004
11 Geological Observations on the Bluff Great House
Fred L. Nials
{FMT}Figures{\}
1.1. Northern San Juan region, the Bluff Great House site, Chaco Canyon, and
Chacoan great houses
1.2. Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon
1.3. Aerial view, Bluff Great House site
1.4. Bluff Great House site, showing great house, great kiva, berm, terrace,
and prehistoric roads.
1.5. Bluff Great House community, showing Pueblo II and Pueblo III period
sites
2.1. The natural features of the Bluff region
3.1. Culture areas of the northern Southwest
3.2. San Juan pattern unit pueblo
3.3. Aerial view of Aztec West great house
3.4. The Aztec Ruins complex
3.5. Aztec West Ruin plan view
3.6. Salmon Ruins during the Chaco era
3.7. Lowry Ruin plan view
3.8. Chimney Rock plan view
3.9. Ida Jean and Wallace Ruin plan views
3.10. Far View Ruin plan view
3.11. Escalante Ruins plan view
3.12. Edge of the Cedars plan view
3.13. Morris Site 39 plan view
3.14. Comparison of Chacoan and Mesa Verdian cultural traits
4.1. Relationship of focus area to the Chaco core area and the greater
Southwest
4.2. The western reaches of the northern San Juan region
4.3. Distribution of great houses and selected other great features, western
northern San Juan region
4.4. Comparative layouts of selected southeastern Utah great houses
4.5. Examples of Pueblo III aggregated sites with possible incorporated great
houses
4.6. Selected Utah great house-associated ritual landscapes
4.7. Aerial view of the Greasewood Flat Great House complex
4.8. Aerial view of the Cottonwood Falls Great House complex
4.9. Prehistoric road from Bluff Great House toward Comb Wash
4.10. Bedrock Groove at the Moki Steps complex
4.11. Rock-cut steps along the Bluff-to-Comb road, Cottonwood Wash
4.12. Herradura features, western northern San Juan region
4.13. Jackson's Shrine
4.14. One of two opposing herraduras that bracket the Comb Wash road
4.15. Road-associated rock art panels
4.16. Arch Canyon ritual landscape features with projected road alignments
5.1. Bluff Great House, showing excavation test units
5.2. Sunset on fall equinox along rear wall of Bluff great house
5.3. Wall construction types for great houses in Chaco Canyon
5.4. Room suites at Chaco Canyon great houses through time
5.5. Bluff great house, showing wall and room feature numbers
5.6. Detail of wall intersection of Features 3, 4, 5, and 12
5.7. Feature 4 wall, looking south
5.8. North face and overview of the Feature 3 wall
5.9. Typical footer trench for core-and-veneer walls at Bluff
5.10. Different reconstructions of the height of the Feature 3 wall
5.11. Front wall of great house (Feature 51), profiles, cross section
5.12. Overview of front wall (Feature 51) excavations (TU 70 area)
5.13. Room Feature 2 under excavation by CU field student Tracey Chirhart
5.14. Stratigraphic profile of the west wall of Test Units 3 and 4 in Room
Feature 2
5.15. Wall drawings of the north and south walls of Room Feature 2
5.16. The base of the Feature 4 wall in Room Feature 2
5.17. Looking south at the Feature 22 wall
5.18. Plan view Feature 56 room (TU 72 area)
5.19. Stratigraphic profile of the west wall of TU 72E in Room Feature 56
5.20. Overview of floor of Room Feature 56
5.21. Feature 63, an apparent post-occupational shrine
5.22. The north wall (Feature 3 wall) of Room Feature 56 (TU 72 area)
5.23. The east wall (Feature 45) of Room Feature 56 (TU 72 area)
5.24. The south wall (Feature 49) of Room Feature 56 (TU 72 area)
5.25. The top portion of the west wall (Feature 54) of the Feature 56 room
(TU 72 area)
5.26. Floor Feature 88 in the floor of Room Feature 56
5.27. Hole in the east wall of Room Feature 56 (Feature 45.1; TU 72 area)
5.28. East profile of Test Units 75A--C
5.29. The north face of the Feature 3 wall as exposed in the Feature 58 room
(TU 75 area)
5.30. The north wall (Feature 55) of Room Feature 58 (TU 75 area)
5.31. The west wall (Feature 12) of Room Feature 58 (TU 75 area)
5.32. Plan view of Test Unit 71 area
5.33. Test Unit 71 area, looking west
5.34. Stratigraphic profile, Architectural Space 71B/71I
5.35. Cobble surface found in Architectural Space 71B/71I
5.36. Test Unit 71 area looking east
5.37. Feature 39 wall (in TU 71 area)
5.38. Stratigraphic profile, east wall of West Kiva
5.39. The Feature 9 wall formed the box for the West Kiva
5.40. Cross section of West Kiva
5.41. West Kiva cobble wall (Feature 8)
5.42. West Kiva roof beams in place
5.43. Plan view Middle Kiva (TUs 60 and 64)
5.44. East wall of the Middle Kiva and stratigraphic profile of the north
face of Test Unit 60 in the Middle Kiva
5.45. Overview of Middle Kiva wall and bench
5.46. Stratigraphic profile of south wall, East Kiva (Test Unit 18/45/47)
5.47. Stratigraphic profile, Test Units 71 and 71A, interstitial fill
surrounding the East Kiva
5.48. Cross section, Middle and East Kivas
5.49. Overview of East Kiva (TU 18/45/47)
5.50. Bird painted on East Kiva pilaster
5.51. Plan view and cross section of Northeast Kiva, Feature 32 (TU 68 area)
5.52. Stratigraphic profile of north and east walls of TU 68C (Northeast
Kiva)
5.53 Feature 30 wall
5.54. Feature 32.1 inner wall of Northeast Kiva, showing the location of the
southern recess
5.55. Photos of Feature 32.1 inner wall of Northeast Kiva
5.56. Overview of curved wall of Northeast Kiva (Feature 32.1)
5.57. Construction sequence for Bluff great house
6.1. Bluff great kiva, showing test units excavated
6.2. Plan view of great kiva, showing most feature numbers associated with
the structure
6.3. Lowry Ruin great kiva
6.4. East--west and north--south cross sections of great kiva
6.5. Overview of the relationship between the North Antechamber and the great
kiva
6.6. Feature 11, inner wall of great kiva (TU 29/29A)
6.7. Inner wall of the great kiva (Feature 79) as exposed in Test Unit 81
6.8. Bench of great kiva exposed in Test Unit 73
6.9. Surfaces in the great kiva in Test Unit 81
6.10. Feature 82 vault in great kiva floor
6.11. South end of the Feature 82 vault
6.12. Stratigraphic profile of Test Unit 81 and North Antechamber
6.13. Stratigraphic profile of Test Unit 29/29A
6.14. Stratigraphic profile of south wall of Test Unit 73
6.15. Sequence of construction and remodeling in North Antechamber, Pueblo II
and Pueblo III
6.16. Overview of North Antechamber, looking south
6.17. Overview of North Antechamber, Eastern Room Space
6.18. Close-up of Feature 13 wall and Feature 47 bench
6.19. Uneven caliche surface in Western Room Space (TU 56E)
6.20. North wall of Test Unit 56
6.21. Overview of West Peripheral Room
6.22. Western wall of West Peripheral Room (Feature 10)
6.23. Stratigraphic profile of south wall of Test Units 55 and 29A, and south
subfloor profile of Test Unit 29A/29B
6.24. Looking east at the East Peripheral Room wall
6.25. Stratigraphic profile of the north face of the East Peripheral Room (TU
8)
6.26. Stratigraphic profile of the south face of the anomaly trench (TU 9)
7.1. Bluff great house site with berm and terrace test units highlighted
7.2. The northern Southwest, showing great house sites discussed in chapter 7
7.3. Stratigraphic profile, east wall of Test Unit 78 backhoe trench
7.4. Details of the profile of Test Unit 78 trench
7.5. Test Unit 78 trench and the flat terrace surface that would have
extended from the rear of the great house during the Chaco era
7.6. Stratigraphic profile of the east face of Test Unit 62
7.7. Stratigraphic profile of the north, east, and south faces of Test Unit
19
7.8. Stratigraphic profile of the east wall of Test Unit 66
7.9. Stratigraphic profile of the north wall of Test Unit 10/25/26/43/44
8.1. Estimated number of stories at the Bluff great house
8.2. Wijiji great house, Chaco Canyon
8.3. Tsin Kletzin and Kin Kletso, Chaco Canyon
8.4. The northern San Juan and Cibola regions