The Edge of the Cedars Pueblo consists of two villages, one dating to the late 800s and early 900s and the other to the late 1000s and mid-1100s. The later village includes a Chacoan great house and great kiva. A powerful society centered in Chaco Canyon, about 140 miles to the southeast, influenced local people to construct large multistory buildings called great houses and huge subterranean round rooms called great kivas in their own communities. Across the Mesa Verde region, people built dozens of great house sites in the late 1000s. The mounds of rubble and earth at the site are the tumbled-down remains of several pueblos, and the depressions on the ground surface mark kivas now filled with earth.