Great Kiva, Chimney Rock National Monument, Colorado, USA

The Great Kiva, built c. 1084, a large round ceremonial room with central fire pit, diverting stone and ventilation shaft, rebuilt in 1972, at Chimney Rock National Monument, in Chimney Rock State Park, in San Juan National Forest, South West Colorado, USA. The ridge was an ancestral Puebloan site occupied 925-1125 AD by around 2000 Indians. Chimney Rock was made a National Monument in 2012 and is listed on the US National Register of Historic Places and the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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