At Edge of the Cedars, an excavated great house was constructed in the mid-1000s CE and occupied until around 1150 CE. Its builders made rectangular rooms with wide masonry walls that supported a structure at least two stories tall, and villagers added a kiva on the west side of the great house, perhaps for a particular family or for the rituals of one or more important groups in the community. Villagers likely built the great kiva at about the same time as the great house, and like kivas in modern-day pueblos, great kivas were probably gathering places for community leaders and decision-makers. Earlier village features dating to 850 lie below the great house, and after about 950 people did not build or live on the site for the next 100 years. Around 1050 construction of the great house began, and for the next 75 years people built and lived in small pueblo homes surrounding it. After the site was uninhabited for 60 or more years following about 1150, a small group returned around 1215, remodeled the great house, and built a kiva in one of the rooms on its east side. These later occupants remained only a few years before moving on. The great kiva at Edge of the Cedars remains unexcavated and will remain undisturbed out of respect to Pueblo descendants.