AZTEC RUINS Guidebook 1946

UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
J. A. Krug, Secretary
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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Newton B. Drury, Director

CONTENTS

Cover

A general view of the main Aztec ruin, looking southward across the Animas River Valley.

THE COVER

A section of the western face of the main ruin at Aztec Ruins National Monument. Representative of the Classic Period of the Puebloan civilization, this three-storied ruin consisted of many rectangular rooms and a number of circular ceremonial rooms called kivas. Features shown in the view include the darker decorative strip of banded masonry, square-cornered doorways, and stone ax-hewn beams.