This stone stacker dwelling was built atop a wide ridge top overlooking Pinal Creek, a tributary of Salt River some thirty miles upstream from and southeast of the main riverside settlement of the Salado stone stackers.
The people who built this home lived here between 1225 and 1400 CE. The dwelling consists of several multi-story masonry room clusters interconnected with long corridors or plazas. The room clusters are built around a large communal plaza about thirty-five feet by seventy feet in size (12m x 27m).
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Photo credit: National Park Service
Wall construction consists of unshaped, large to medium size granite cobblestone masonry laid with clay mortar. Interior rooms were plastered with mortar, possibly a more calcium carbonate based mortar for a white finish.
A characteristic of these stone worker was to stand large stone slabs vertically at the base of the walls.
