Shabik'eshchee Village is an archeological site located atop Chacra Mesa, New Mexico. Covering 20 acres (8.1 ha), the pit-house settlement was occupied c. 500–700 by Basketmaker III peoples. Discovered by Frank Roberts in 1926, the site is one of the earliest settlements in Chaco Canyon. Shabik'eshchee Village contained one hundred pit houses and a community great kiva. It is located approximately 9 miles (14 km) east of Pueblo Bonito.
References
- Fagan 2005, pp. 80–82.
- Windes 2004, p. 15.
- Vivian & Hilpert 2012, p. 241.
- Bibliography
- Fagan, Brian (2005). Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-517043-6.
- Vivian, R. Gwinn; Hilpert, Bruce (2012), The Chaco Handbook: An Encyclopedic Guide (2 ed.), University of Utah Press, ISBN 978-1-60781-195-4
- Windes, Thomas C. (2004). "The Rise of Early Chacoan Great Houses". In Nobel, David Grant (ed.). In Search of Chaco: New Approaches to an Archaeological Enigma. School of American Research Press. ISBN 978-1-930618-42-8.
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