Kin Kletso (Yellow House) is a medium-sized Great House with about 55 rooms, four kivas, and a tower kiva. It shows strong evidence of construction and occupation by Pueblo peoples from the northern San Juan Basin. Its rectangular shape and design is related to the Pueblo II cultural group, rather than the Pueblo III style or its Chacoan variant.
Evidence of a bead manufacturing workshop has been uncovered during excavations. Beads made from turquoise, shale and shells have been uncovered. The turquoise may have come from a mine near the present-day town of Cerillos, New Mexico which is in the hills south of Santa Fe – a distance of over 115 miles!
Directions
From the parking lot at the end of the paved road, follow an old road for about 0.3 miles west to Kin Kletso.
