Kin Ya'a ( nv, "tall house") is a Chacoan great house and the center of a significant Ancestral Puebloan outlier community. It is located near

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on the Dutton Plateau, south of Chaco Canyon. The unexcavated building has thirty-five rooms and four kivas, one of which is a four-story tower kiva that can be seen from several miles away.

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indicates the structure was built during the late 11th and early 12th centuries. More than one hundred small building sites have been located within . The great house is connected to Chaco Canyon by the South Road. As a detached unit of Chaco Culture National Historical Park, the site is controlled by the

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;Bibliography * Archaeological sites in New Mexico Chaco Canyon Chaco Culture National Historical Park Colorado Plateau Ancestral Puebloans {{NewMexico-geo-stub