What Is It?

It stands in the middle of one of the linked plazas of a remote, dusty, fallen Pueblo complex that was abandoned, probably because of drought, sometime about 1200 C.E..

It’s not a grave. Ancestral Puebloans didn’t do graves with headstones.

It looks shrine-ish. The unassuming shrines of the Pueblos are often a careful pile of stones.

One thought on “What Is It?”

  1. I am reminded of an article written by Santa Clara Pueblo member and architect Rina Swentzell, “An Understated Sacredness.” You can find the three-page article online. It talks about a similar shrine on one of Santa Clara Pueblo’s sacred mountains.

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