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Chaco Canyon Pot Shard on Hand

Between AD 850 and 1250, the major center of ancestral Pueblo culture was at Chaco Canyon.
Some scholars believe that breaking a pot into pieces was a ritual practice meant to free spirits to pass into the next world.


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