Table 3. Dates for Critical Events along the Chaco Meridian.


Event Lekson Date (page no.) Comments
Construction of great North Road "No earlier than the 1080s and more likely the early 1100s" (115)

"Between the late 1080s and the early 1100s" (130)
None
Initial Construction of Salmon attempted capital 1088 (29, Fig. 2.5; 130)

1090-1095 (76)
1088 (L. Baker, 1999 personal communication)
Failure of Salmon attempted capital Not stated; implied post 1100 (29, Fig. 2.5) Major construction at Salmon Ruin ended 1264 (L. Baker, 1999 personal communication)
Founding of Aztec capital 1100 (112, fn. 13; 159)

1110 (69; 70; 71; 74-75; 130; 132; 159)
None
Collapse of Chaco Canyon capital 1125 (64; 66, fn. 5; 69; 70; 71; 73; 112, fn. 13; 130; 131; 140; 160) None
Founding of Paquimé
capital
1250 (69; 70; 72; 73; 94; 131)

"No earlier than 1250 ... probably closer to 1300" (107)

"After 1250 and before 1300" (132)

"No visible architecture ... securely dated before 1250, or even 1300" (136)
Before 1250; I suspect ca. 1200 (see text).
Collapse of Aztec capital 1275 (69; 70; 74-75; 126; 128; 132; 141; 159; 160) None

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