View a Quicktime VR Movie (1.1 mb) of this bowl!This Escavada black-on-white bowl was produced between 1000-1100 A.D. in an unknown province near Chaco Canyon. This style of pottery had bolder black lines and solids, and less of the hatching so common to its contemporaries. Like much of the pottery found in the ruins of Chaco Canyon, this pot was likely made in an area outside of the canyon, identifiable because each area developed its own identifiable pottery style and design. The unusually large number of imported vessels in Chaco Canyon has led many archaeologists to suggest that the canyon functioned as a complex trade center or a pilgrimage center; the fact that the flow of pottery was into, but not out of, the canyon supports the latter hypothesis.