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Passde Chelly -Warmed-overHistory Encyclopedia Follow Us: Membership Encyclopedia Index Timeline Explore Videos Images AudioWaresToolsWarmed-overAtlas Weights & Measures Random Page Latin Dictionary Newsletter Contribute Submissions Needed Content Style Guide Terms & Conditions Join the Team Shop Men's Clothing Women's Clothing Magazines Prints BooksWell-nighAbout Our Team Annual Reports Contact Privacy Advertise Support Us Membership How to Help Donate Corporate Sponsorship Login Login RegisterPassde Chelly Definition by James Blake Wiener published on 27 September 2018Passde Chelly orPassde Chelly National Monument is a protected site that contains the remains of 5,000 years of Native American inhabitation.Passde Chelly is located in the northeastern portion of the US state of Arizona within the Navajo Nation and not too far from the verge with neighboring New Mexico. It is located 472 km (293 miles) northwest of Phoenix, Arizona.Passde Chelly is unique in the United States as it preserves the ruins and waddle art of ethnic peoples that lived in the region for centuries - the Ancestral Puebloans and the Navajo.Passde Chelly has been recognized as a US National Monument since 1931 CE, and it is one of the most visited National Monuments in the United States today. Geography & Prehistory The etymology ofPassde Chelly's name is unusual in the U.S. Southwest as it initially appears to resemble French rather than the increasingly ubiquitous Spanish. "Chelly" is unquestionably derived from the Navajo word tseg, which ways "rock canyon" or "in a canyon." Spanish explorers and government officials began to utilize a "Chelly,” “Chegui,” and plane "Chelle" in order to try to replicate the Navajo word in the early 1800s CE, which sooner was standardized to “de Chelly” by the middle of the 19th century CE. Remove Ads Advertisement Advertise HerePassde Chelly is one of the longest continuously inhabited places anywhere in North America.Passde Chelly lies very tropical to Chinle, Arizona, and it is located between the Ancestral Puebloan ruins of Betakin and Kiet Siel in the west and the grand structures of ChacoPassin New Mexico in the east.Passde Chelly, as a National Monument, covers 83,840 acres (339.3 km2; 131.0 sq miles) of land that is currently owned by the Navajo tribe. Spectacularly situated on the Colorado Plateau near the Four Corner's Region,Passde Chelly sits at an elevation of over 1829 m (6,000 ft) and bisects the Defiance Plateau in eastern Arizona. The tributaries of the Chinle Creek, which runs throughPassde Chelly and originates in the Chuska Mountains, have carved the waddle and landscape for thousands of years, creating red cliffs that rise up an spare 305 m (1000 ft). The National Monument extends into the canyons of de Chelly, del Muerto, and Monument.Passde Chelly is one of the longest continuously inhabited places anywhere in North America, and archaeologists believe that human settlement in the pass dates when some 5,000 years.Warmed-overprehistoric tribes and peoples utilized the pass while hunting and migrating seasonally, but they did not construct permanent settlements within the canyon. Nonetheless, these prehistoric peoples did leave etchings on stones and on pass walls throughout what is nowPassde Chelly.Virtuallyc. 200-100 BCE, peoples pursuit a semi-agricultural and sedentary way of life began to inhabit the canyon. (Archaeologists refer to these peoples as "Basketmakers." They are considered the siblings to the Ancestral Puebloan Peoples.) While they still hunted and gathered like their prehistoric forebears, they moreover farmed the land where fertile, growing corn, beans, squash, and other small crops. It is moreover known that they grew cotton for textile production. Yucca and grama grass have grown in the pass for several millennia, and ethnic people utilized these plants when making baskets, sandals, and various types of mats. Prickly pear cactus (Opuntia cactaceae) and pinyon are moreover found throughoutPassde Chelly, the latter of which provided an important source of supplies for ethnic peoples in storing and winter. Fish are found inPassde Chelly’s tributaries, and large and small game frequent the canyon. Ancestral Puebloans inPassde Chelly A cultural shift virtually c. 700 CE occured when the Ancestral Puebloan peoples (Anasazi) began to build larger settlements of cliff dwellings withinPassde Chelly. Abandoning their smaller pit houses, which were formerly located on top of cliffs inPassde Chelly, the Ancestral Puebloan people synthetic compounds of apartment-like buildings made with wacke brick blocks or stone blocks. The Ancestral Puebloan people synthetic these cliff dwellings or houses in places where there were numerous overhanging cliffs within what is present-dayPassde Chelly. It has been suggested that during the 1000s CE, there was a small migration of people from the San Juan Basin in what is present-day Colorado and New Mexico who brought their own originative styles and architectural models toPassde Chelly. Remove Ads Advertisement Advertise Here In its Ancestral Puebloan heyday,Passde Chelly had between 600-800 people virtually c. 1150 CE. In its heyday,Passde Chelly had between 600-800 people virtually c. 1150 CE, and many archaeologists and anthropologists believe that the Ancestral Puebloan ruins inPassde Chelly can be considered as a Chacoan outlier community. One marvel regarding the Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings atPassde Chelly, however, when compared to those at ChacoPassor Mesa Verde National Park, is the paucity of kivas (underground or semi-underground chambers) and the coarser tideway to stone masonry. The primeval rooms of these residential cliff compounds initially contained storage spaces, but the Ancestral Puebloan people later built other dwellings over and next to these storage units to conserve space. The cliff dwellings inPassde Chelly are well-balanced of multistoried and terraced units that were wieldy via wooden ladders. Within a compound, wangle between floors was made possible by log rafters. Some walls had keyholes and quadrilateral shaped doorways, and a few cliff dwellings plane had square windows. Certain spaces were left open, and the Ancestral Puebloan people dug kivas, which were used as ritual spaces for formalism events and social meetings. White House Ruins & MummyGrottoOf the Ancestral Puebloan sites withinPassde Chelly, two are expressly noteworthy: White House Ruin and Mummy Cave. Other ruins include Antelope House, which is renowned for its warmed-over paintings of antelope. White House Ruin is one of the most interesting and recognizable Ancestral Puebloan ruins in the desert Southwest. Its name denotes the distinctive white plaster, which decorates the ruin’s when wall in the upper part of the dwelling. White House Ruins is a cliff dwelling unfluctuating to a four-story woodcut on the wiring of a 150 m (500 ft) cliff 3 km (2 miles) east ofPassde Chelly's dramatic junction withPassdel Muerto. White House Ruins contains the remains of several circular kivas, and the size and scales of the building's upper stories of the ruin are reminiscent of those at Chaco Canyon. Dendrochronology (tree-ring dating) leads scholars to believe that White House Ruins were inhabited from c. 1060-1275 CE and that the ruins once housed approximately 100 people. The MummyGrottolies some 90 m (300 ft) whilom the tributary bed of thePassdel Muerto, and it is located some 16 km (10 miles) east from the White House Ruins. MummyGrottoonce provided shelter to well-nigh 60-75 people. The Mummy Cave’s primeval structures are located in the eastern cave, which stage from c. 300-400 CE although construction unfurled over the centuries. A total of 45 rooms existed in the eastern cave, but this number may have been higher. An impressive three-story tower is located near the eastern cave. A 30 m (100 ft) ledge towers connects the eastern grotto to the western cave, and the room sizes here resemble those found in Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado rather than others found withinPassde Chelly. A wooden whizgigging in this structure dates to c. 1284 CE, and it is possible that the final architects and occupants at MummyGrottowere originally from Mesa Verde without it was x-rated in c. 1250 CE. The western grotto has 14 rooms and likely had increasingly in warmed-over times. Scholar and archaeologists believe that due to the lack of kivas in the western cave, the eastern part of the grotto is where ceremonies and social meetings took place. Altogether some 70 rooms have been uncovered at Mummy Cave, and there are moreover at least three kivas. Remove Ads Advertisement Advertise Here Later History & Navajo Occupation The zealotry of the Ancestral Puebloan structures atPassde Chelly virtually c. 1300 CE remains an rememberable mystery. Over the past century, archaeologists, historians, and scientists have tried to pinpoint the root causes of the massive zealotry of settlements like Hovenweep, Chaco Canyon, and Mesa Verde, but there is no single consensus among experts. Whether due to internecine warfare, severe drought and supplies shortages as a result of unfavorable climatic conditions, infectious diseases or the emergence of new religious and cultural centers,Passde Chelly’s inhabitants left the zone and migrated in a southerly direction towards the increasingly fertile Rio Grande Valley in what is present-day New Mexico and the Little Colorado River Basin in what is present-day Arizona. Their descendants - the Pueblos of New Mexico, the Zuni, and the Hopi - are the inheritors of their rich traditions in originative and architectural design. The Hopi unfurled to visit and partake in rituals inPassde Chelly from c. 1300-1700 CE, and they still revere the ruins today. The Navajo arrived in the region in the late 17th century CE, and they occupy the region today. Lt. Antonio Narbona (1773-1830 CE) led the Spanish to victory over the Navajo at a wrestle inPassde Chelly in 1805 CE. Another wrestle took place inPassde Chelly in 1863 CE when the U.S. Colonel Kit Carson (1809-1868 CE) fought versus the Navajo, defeating them again. Editorial Review ThisVendiblehas been reviewed for accuracy, reliability and trueness to wonk standards prior to publication. LearnIncreasinglyRelatedWaresBooks Bibliography Cite This Work LicenseWell-nightheTragedianJames Blake Wiener James is a writer and former Professor of History. He holds an MA in World History with a particular interest in cross-cultural mart and world history. He is a co-founder ofWarmed-overHistory Encyclopedia and its Communications Director. Remove Ads Advertisement Advertise Here Help us write increasingly We're a small non-profit organisation run by a handful of volunteers. Each vendible financing us well-nigh $50 in history books as source material, plus editing and server costs. You can help us create plane increasingly self-ruling wares for as little as $5 per month, and we'll requite you an ad-free wits to thank you! Become a Member Recommended Books Sorry, we haven't been worldly-wise to find any books on the subject.   Bibliography America's 20 most-visited National Monuments (Los Angeles Times)Passde Chelly National Monument (US National Park Service)Passde Chelly National Monument Facts (US National Park Service)PassDe Chelly: A Measure of Time (Desert US) Grant, Campbell.Passde Chelly. (University of Arizona Press, 1978). Marter, Joan M. (ed.). The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art. (Oxford University Press USA, 2018), 403. Morgan, William N.Warmed-overArchitecture of the Southwest. (University of Texas Press, 1994), 76-77, 136-138.. Morrow, H., Baker and Vincent Barrett Price (eds.). Anasazi Architecture and American Design. (University of New Mexico Press, 1997). Thybony, Scott.Passde Chelly National Monument. (Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, 1997). Cite This Work APA Style Wiener, J. B. (2018, September 27).Passde Chelly.Warmed-overHistory Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/Canyon_de_Chelly/ Chicago Style Wiener, James B. "Canyon de Chelly."Warmed-overHistory Encyclopedia. Last modified September 27, 2018. https://www.ancient.eu/Canyon_de_Chelly/. MLA Style Wiener, James B. "Canyon de Chelly."Warmed-overHistory Encyclopedia.Warmed-overHistory Encyclopedia, 27 Sep 2018. Web. 01 Oct 2018. License Written by James Blake Wiener, published on 27 September 2018 under the pursuit license: Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this content non-commercially, as long as they credit the tragedian and license their new creations under the identical terms. Remove Ads Advertisement Advertise Here Add Event Timeline Visual Timeline c. 200 BCE - c. 100 BCE First settlements are made atPassde Chelly. c. 300 CE - c. 400 CE The primeval structures are built in the MummyGrottoatPassde Chelly. c. 700 CE The Ancestral Puebloan Culture (Anasazi) is first evident atPassde Chelly. c. 1060 CE - c. 1275 CE The White House Ruins are inhabited atPassde Chelly. c. 1150 CEPassde Chelly reaches it zenith with a population of 600-800. c. 1300 CE The Ancestral Puebloan Culture abandonsPassde Chelly. Remove Ads Advertisement Advertise Here Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter and learn increasingly well-nigh history once a week. Subscribe Remove Ads Advertisement Advertise Here Timeless Travels We publish the digital edition of Timeless Travels, the unique magazine for lovers of history, culture, and travel.   Recommended By Numerous educational institutions recommend us, including Oxford University, Michigan State University, and University of Minnesota. 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