Kin Nahasbas is a
Chacoan Anasazi
The Ancestral Puebloans, also known as the Anasazi, were an ancient Native American culture that spanned the present-day Four Corners region of the United States, comprising southeastern Utah, northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, a ...
great house and archaeological site located in
Chaco Canyon
Chaco Culture National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park in the American Southwest hosting a concentration of pueblos. The park is located in northwestern New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington, in a remote c ...
, 25 miles southwest of
Nageezi, New Mexico
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,
United States
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. Built in either the 9th or 10th centuries, it was major pueblo located slightly north of the
Una Vida complex, which is positioned at the foot of the north mesa. Limited excavation has been conducted in this area.
[.] The ruins are now protected within the borders of
Chaco Culture National Historical Park
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.
Archeologists Lekson, Windes and McKenna
[Lekson, S.H,(Ed.) The Archeology of Chaco Canyon, page 74, School of American Research Press, 2006, ] place the construction of Kin Nahasbas (kin nahas bas) in the late 9th century along with early construction work on
Pueblo Bonito
Pueblo Bonito (Spanish for ''beautiful town'') is the largest and best-known great house in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, northern New Mexico. It was built by the Ancestral Puebloans who occupied the structure between AD 828 and 1126 ...
,
Peñasco Blanco, Una Vida, the Padilla Well Great House, the East Community, Pueblo Pintado and Casa del Rio at the extreme western end of the Chaco core.
Unlike Pueblo Bonito, Una Vida and other Great House ruins that can be seen in the Chaco park today, Nahasbas probably was not occupied/maintained into the next century. Today the National Park Service does not have the Nahasbas House site open for visitors. It has not been excavated/stabilized and there are no interesting ruins to see. The late 9th century when Kin Nahabas was built is the transition period between
Pueblo I and II cultures. In Chaco the population of people living in small houses grew enormously. This growth was probably supported by migrating peoples drawn to Chaco from the great Pueblo I communities in the northern San Juan (river) region. The period provided favorable rains for farming maize in Chaco canyon and on the mesas that could sustain a growing "urban" Chaco population.
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Colorado Plateau
Chaco Canyon
Former populated places in New Mexico
Chaco Culture National Historical Park
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