Chetro Ketl, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico

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On the left hand side of the model beside the large circular kiva, two figures provide scale to the sixty foot diameter kiva. This is a partial assembly of images taken during one walk thru of a very large place that I am assembling into a larger model. Like other great houses in Chaco Canyon, Chetro Ketl was built over an extended period, with Ancestral Puebloans quarrying huge amounts of sandstone from the surrounding canyon.[29] W. James Judge describes the period from 1030 to 1130 as “Chaco's golden century, a period virtually unmatched elsewhere in the pre-Columbian Southwest”.[30] By 1085, the Chacoans had constructed great houses at Chetro Ketl, Pueblo Alto, and Pueblo del Arroyo, during what Fagan describes as “a time of extraordinary growth and outreach”. Created in RealityCapture by Capturing Reality from 697 images in four hours, forty-eight minutes, thirty-nine seconds.