Tonque Pueblo
Tonque (TONG-kee) is a large abandoned Pre-Columbian era, Pre-Columbian pueblo in Sandoval County, New Mexico, United States, about 7 miles / 12 km southeast of San Felipe Pueblo, New Mexico, San Felipe Pueblo. It was a site of significant ceramic industry, and may have provided up to one-third of the glaze decorated pottery used in contemporary pueblos in the middle Rio Grande valley. Pueblo complex Tonque pueblo (LA240), now a severely eroded ruin, was constructed of adobe and may never have exceeded a single storey. It comprised between 1500 and 2000 rooms arranged in an E, with four parallel arms running approximately east–west, of about 120 to 280 metres length and of 4 to 10 rooms width, and with a continuous block of rooms running north–south, now mostly destroyed, along the west side.Brasswell, A.; ''Digs,'' University of New Mexico Anthropology Newsletter, Spring 2008 The pueblo is sited on the north edge of Tonque arroyo, a normally dry tributary to the Rio Gr ...
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Tejon Grant, New Mexico
Tejon may refer to: * Tejon, California * Fort Tejon, California * Tejon Pass * Tejón, a Mexican name for Coati, an animal in the raccoon family * Tejon Indian Tribe of California {{disambig, geo ...
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