Kin Bineola is an Ancestral Puebloan great house and archeological site located 12 miles (19 km) from Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico, United States. Construction on the core of the building, which is E-shaped, began in the early 10th century; it was significantly remodeled and enlarged during the 12th century.

Kin Bineola is Navajo for “house in which the wind whirls” or “house the wind blows around.” The site is a large Chacoan great house built along the Kin Bineola Wash about 12 miles (19 km.) southwest of Pueblo Bonito. Kin Bineola was connected to the canyon by a Chacoan road.

Jun 23, 2010 · Kin Bineola means "House of the Whirlwind" in the Navajo language. Warning: Kin Bineola is very isolated, hot in the summer, and dry. The nearest services are 24 miles away in Crownpoint. Lake Valley, 8 miles down the dirt road, has very limited services and hours.

Join us on June 7th – 9 am MST for an Archaeological Tour of Kin Bineola. The Chaco Culture Conservancy is excited to announce our first guided tour of 2024, led by Dr. Ruth Van Dyke. Ruth is a professional archaeologist who specializes in …

Dec 4, 2023 · Pueblo Pintado and Kin Klizhin great houses are open to the public. Information and directions are available at the park visitor center. Four outliers are: Kin Klizhin ("black house"); famous for its impressive tower kiva, located along a wash that empties into the Chaco River just west of the park boundary.

May 30, 2012 · Kin Bineola submitted by Flickr: Chaco Canyon - Kin Bineola Pottery shards everywhere. We looked at them, photographed them, left them where they were. The Chacoan pottery is uniformly monochrome - black and white designs, or natural terra cotta.

Kin Bineola is 17 kilometers southwest of Chaco Canyon, the center of the Chaco Anasazi and world famous today for its great houses monumental, multistory, coursed-stone-veneer buildings whose floor plans are regular and symmetrical (Lekson 1984).

Jul 4, 2010 · From Kin Klizhin the road continues due west to the Kin Bineola Valley and passes one mile north of Kin Bineola great house. Outliers share many of the typical Chacoan traits, such as architecture, masonry, roads, great kivas, enclosed plazas, pottery, etc.

The Kin Bineola unit contains the largest habitation roomblocks with the highest room counts, and the Kin Klizhin unit contains the smallest habitation roomblocks with the lowest room counts.

Kin Bineola is an Ancestral Puebloan great house and archeological site located 12 miles (19 km) from Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico, United States. Construction on the core of the building, which is E-shaped, began in the early 10th century; it was significantly remodeled and enlarged during the 12th century.