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Kin Bineola (Kin Binola)

Kin Bineola (House with Wind? Navajo) · Kin Bineola · Kin Binola · Kin Bine'ola

Chaco Late Bonito to Post-Chaco San Juan·Chaco (ancestral Pueblo) → Mesa Verde–San Juan reoccupation·🇺🇸 New Mexico, McKinley County – south-central Chaco outwash 26 km SW of Pueblo Bonito, United States

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About Kin Bineola (Kin Binola)

Isolated Chacoan great house outlier (c.1050–1110 CE core, Late Pueblo II, Classic Bonito phase + San Juan reoccupation c.1150) 26 km SW of Chaco proper — closest great house to Chaco that captures Chaco's empty-center road system gap. 4 habitation tiers 200 rooms? Actually great house 40 ground-floor rooms + 150 small site rooms, great kiva 18 m, road segment Chaco South Road spur. Van Dyke, Powers & Fowler BLM/Chaco Project: classic Chaco core-and-veneer, colonnaded hall, multiple building phases with tree-ring 1050 and 1080 vigas, San Juan reorientation 1120.

Why it mattersKey 'closest outlier' — defines Chaco halo 26 km radius; South Road outlier terminus.

Open questions

Mysteries & theories

Mysteries

01Why SW direction outlier emptiest — defensive buffer?
02Great house 40 rooms vs 700 — symbolic or proportional

Theories

01Kin Bineola as Chaco empty-theatre road marker — southeast processional terminus

Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.

History

How it came to be

Built: c.1050–1080 CE great house; small sites 1100–1150
Period: Chaco Late Bonito to Post-Chaco San Juan
Culture: Chaco (ancestral Pueblo) → Mesa Verde–San Juan reoccupation
Builders: Chacoan masons then San Juan immigrants
Purpose: Southwest Chaco outlier and road junction granary/containment
Abandoned: c.1150 Chacoan withdrawal, 1200 final
Rediscovered: 1928 Neutral? Actually 1900s Hewett notes; 1934 Vivian Chaco Center survey
Excavation: Partially excavated