Chan-Ya-Ta Site

Chan-Ya-Ta Site
Nearest city: Linn Grove, Iowa
Governing body: Private
NRHP Reference#:

78001209

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Added to NRHP: November 21, 1978

The Chan-Ya-Ta Site (13BV1) is a Late Prehistoric village in Buena Vista County, Iowa in which Native Americans lived in large earthlodge structures surrounded by a fortified ditch.

The site is part of the Mill Creek Culture, which flourished in northwest Iowa 1100-1200 CE.

The site name is an amalgam of the first letters of the names of the different landowners who allowed access to the site, and is pronounced "chen-yata". It was the scene of the first Iowa Archeological Society field school.


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