They were rooms used by some of the Pueblo tribes...


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Posted by Dan M. (209.92.85.90) on 14:07:17 05/15/14

In Reply to: Kiva posted by Oldtymr

...for ceremonial/spiritual gatherings maybe a thousand years ago, give or take a few hundred years. Mostly they were dug into the ground, the walls would be adobe-plastered, and the whole thing roofed over with rafters and dirt. Sometimes they were bigger than just a room. They had Loonions in the kivas too, and I think the first Starbucks in New Mexico was in a kiva.



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