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Pueblo Bonito was not an isolated community in the desert. It was one of about a dozen equally impressive stone townships that once prospered on the northern side of Chaco Canyon. Around this center, archaeologists have suggested, more than seventy outlying settlements were linked through an extensive network of roads. The entire Chacoan area may have extended over 40,000 square miles in the San Juan Basin. This film explores the implications of these findings, and hypothesizes the reasons for the spectacular growth of this new kind of society, in which sophisticated irrigation systems, the uncertain environment, and widespread trading networks were all important factors.
