Hooded Fireplace Ruin
The hooded fire place site is a pueblito attributed to the Gobernador phase of Navajo history (1700-1775). The site originally included up to eleven rooms in the pueblo and one nearby stone hogan.
The Hooded Fire Place Site reflects economic and social changes taking place among the Navajo of this area during the 18th century. In the previous century the Spanish introduced sheep, fruit, cattle and horses into the area. This, along with the Navajo's adaptation of certain pueblo lifeways after the pueblo revolt (1680-1692) led to increased settlement size and new trade relations. This site can be contrasted with modern Navajo communities which consists of clusters of hogans, widely dispersed with a trade system based on scattered trading posts and the motor vehicle.
| One room of the pueblito is in near original
condition, damaged only where there has been
deterioration of the roof resulting in water seepage
and some interior loss of plaster.
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 | The site is named for a well preserved hooded fire place in the room still roofed. The fire place is an architectural feature brought into the southwest by Spanish colonists and presumably introduced into the Navajo area by pueblo refugees from the revolt of 1690. |
Masonry construction at this site is sandstone and typical of Gobernador phase construction. The Hooded Fire Place Site was nominated to the national register of historic places in 1975. Stabilization of the structures was performed in 1975 by the Bureau of Land Management Stabilization team.
Information contained on this page is loosely quoted from a historic marker located at the ruins.
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