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The ancient structure you are invited to walk through and experience at Aztec Ruins is called a great house. The exact purpose of great houses is not entirely understood, but from 850 to 1250 CE, great houses in Chaco Canyon and across the region seem to have served as ceremonial, political, economic, agricultural and learning centers. They most likely contained residential areas for a few hundred people, but were probably not huge apartment buildings. The majority of the population would have lived in small houses nearby. The great house we know today as Aztec Ruins was constructed in the early 1100s, as Chaco declined, and the center of the culture shifted north to Aztec. It was occupied for about 200 years before the people migrated to other locations.
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