Wijiji

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Wijiji great house

Wijiji is an Ancestral Puebloan great house and archaeological site located in Chaco Canyon, in New Mexico, United States.

Overview

Comprising just over 100 rooms, Wijiji is the smallest of the Chacoan great houses. Built between AD 1110 and 1115,Template:Sfn it was the last Chacoan great house to be constructed. Somewhat isolated within the narrow Chaco Wash, it is positioned Script error: No such module "convert". from Una Vida.

Etymology

Wijiji is a corrupted and garbled mispronunciation of Template:Spell-nv, meaning black greasewood in the Navajo language.

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