Canyons of the Ancients National Park Cortez, Colorado Ancestral Pueblo Anasazi archaeological
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument National Park Cortez, Colorado USA Ancient Ancestral Pueblo Anasazi People archaeological sites Four Corners area
CANYONS
OF THE
ANCIENTS
National Park,
Colorado USA
Canyons of the Ancients National
Monument (the Monument)
encompasses 176,000 acres
of federal land administered
by the Bureau of Land
Management (BLM).
The Monument is located
in the Four Corners region
of southwestern Colorado,
about 50 miles west of Durango,
10 miles west of Cortez
and 12 miles west of
Mesa Verde National Park.
The Monument was
designated on June 9, 2000
by Presidential Proclamation
to protect cultural and natural
resources on a landscape scale.
The Monument contains the
highest known archaeological
site density in the United States,
with rich, well-preserved evidence
of native cultures.
The archeological record etched
into this landscape is
much more than isolated
islands of architecture.
This cultural landscape contains
more than 6,355 recorded sites
reflect all the physical components
of past human life: villages,
field houses, check dams, reservoirs,
great kivas, cliff dwellings,
shrines, sacred springs,
agricultural fields,
petroglyphs and sweat lodges.
Some areas have more than
100 sites per square mile.
The number of sites is
estimated to be up to 30,000.
The Monument has been
used or inhabited by humans,
including the Northern
Ancestral Puebloan culture
(or Anasazi), for 10,000 years,
and continues to be a
landscape used by humans today.
Historic uses of the Monument
include recreation, hunting,
livestock grazing and
energy development.
Credit NPS
CONTACT THE PARK
Monument Manager:
Marietta Eaton
Anasazi Heritage Center
970-882-5600
Anazazi Heritage
Center
Lowry Pueblo
Hovenweep
National
Monument
Sand Canyon
Trailhead
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Canyons of the Ancients National Park 2 Cortez, Colorado Ancestral Pueblo Anasazi archaeological
CANYONS OF THE
ANCIENTS
National Park,
Colorado USA
2
Canyons of the Ancients National
Monument (the Monument)
encompasses 176,000 acres
of federal land administered
by the Bureau of Land
Management (BLM).
The Monument is located
in the Four Corners region
of southwestern Colorado,
about 50 miles west of Durango,
10 miles west of Cortez
and 12 miles west of
Mesa Verde National Park.
The Monument was
designated on June 9, 2000
by Presidential Proclamation
to protect cultural and natural
resources on a landscape scale.
The Monument contains the
highest known archaeological
site density in the United States,
with rich, well-preserved evidence
of native cultures.
The archeological record etched
into this landscape is
much more than isolated
islands of architecture.
This cultural landscape contains
more than 6,355 recorded sites
reflect all the physical components
of past human life: villages,
field houses, check dams, reservoirs,
great kivas, cliff dwellings,
shrines, sacred springs,
agricultural fields,
petroglyphs and sweat lodges.
Some areas have more than
100 sites per square mile.
The number of sites is
estimated to be up to 30,000.
The Monument has been
used or inhabited by humans,
including the Northern
Ancestral Puebloan culture
(or Anasazi), for 10,000 years,
and continues to be a
landscape used by humans today.
Historic uses of the Monument
include recreation, hunting,
livestock grazing and
energy development.
Credit NPS
CONTACT THE PARK
Monument Manager:
Marietta Eaton
Anasazi Heritage Center
970-882-5600
Anazazi Heritage
Center
Lowry Pueblo
Hovenweep
National
Monument
Sand Canyon
Trailhead
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Artist NOWË
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Service
credit NPS photos
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The Bureau of Land Management
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Canyons of the Ancients National Park 3 Cortez, Colorado USA Pueblo Anasazi archaeological Music
CANYONS OF THE
ANCIENTS
National Park,
Colorado USA
3
Canyons of the Ancients National
Monument (the Monument)
encompasses 176,000 acres
of federal land administered
by the Bureau of Land
Management (BLM).
The Monument is located
in the Four Corners region
of southwestern Colorado,
about 50 miles west of Durango,
10 miles west of Cortez
and 12 miles west of
Mesa Verde National Park.
The Monument was
designated on June 9, 2000
by Presidential Proclamation
to protect cultural and natural
resources on a landscape scale.
The Monument contains the
highest known archaeological
site density in the United States,
with rich, well-preserved evidence
of native cultures.
The archeological record etched
into this landscape is
much more than isolated
islands of architecture.
This cultural landscape contains
more than 6,355 recorded sites
reflect all the physical components
of past human life: villages,
field houses, check dams, reservoirs,
great kivas, cliff dwellings,
shrines, sacred springs,
agricultural fields,
petroglyphs and sweat lodges.
Some areas have more than
100 sites per square mile.
The number of sites is
estimated to be up to 30,000.
The Monument has been
used or inhabited by humans,
including the Northern
Ancestral Puebloan culture
(or Anasazi), for 10,000 years,
and continues to be a
landscape used by humans today.
Historic uses of the Monument
include recreation, hunting,
livestock grazing and
energy development.
Credit NPS
CONTACT THE PARK
Monument Manager:
Marietta Eaton
Anasazi Heritage Center
970-882-5600
Anazazi Heritage
Center
Lowry Pueblo
Hovenweep
National
Monument
Sand Canyon
Trailhead
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Artist Dan Lebowitz
Song Surrender
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Song Happy
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Canyons of the Ancients National Monument Colorado - Goosenecks State Park Utah
After one and a half months of vanlife around Colorado we made our way towards Utah via Cortez, located on the Southwest corner of Colorado. We planned to explore the stunning Canyons of the Ancients National Monument but due to several days of pouring rain we chose to instead visit the Anasazi Heritage Center, located in Dolores, Colorado. The museum offers a beautiful exhibit with artifacts and tools from the ancient people with education on the Anasazi culture and film documentaries and photo exhibits:
We stayed a couple of days in Cortez to get some work done at the Spruce Tree Espresso House, a cafe with delicious coffee and tea, smoothies and vegetarian and vegan food options as well as free wifi and lots of seating which is a welcoming way to get some work done as a digital nomad.
The small town has a couple of different restaurants and we especially loved the farm to table food at the Farm Bistro:
We were delighted to find a great yoga studio called Heart and Core Yoga Studio where we enjoyed a great vinyasa flow class. After speaking to the teacher who is also a homesteader we met the next day for an interview on sustainable living, check out the interview here:
After a few days in Cortez, we made our way into the State of Utah and visited the incredible Goosenecks State Park, a state park with picnic area and campsites located in Balding UT where we took a hike along the canyon and enjoyed the gorgeous views:
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Ep. 100: Canyons of the Ancients | National Monument Colorado RV travel camping
Our big 100th episode of Grand Adventure was supposed to be about both Canyons of the Ancients AND Hovenweep National Monuments, but our RV had other ideas. While camping at Mancos State Park, and en route to another camp at Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, we visit the Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center and Museum, tour the Lowry Pueblo ruins that date to the 10th Century, and hike to more ruins in the National Monument's Sand Canyon before our RV left us on the side of the road.
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Three National Monuments from Cortez
Over the past week we've visited 3 National Monuments to get a head start on our RV'ers Guide to the National Monuments of the Southwest guidebook. Hovenweep, Canyon of the Ancients, and Natural Bridges are all close enough to Cortez to make day trips. Help back this project at
BROKE MY NEW CAMERA?!?! Canyons of the Ancients National Monument
I'm in Cortez, CO, boondocking in town at the American Legion. Dry camping is only $5 a night for self contained vehicles.
I make a quick stop at Sutcliffe Vineyards in McElmo Canyon for a little wine tasting. It was right across the street from a trailhead in the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument. After tasting a few wines, we go for a little hike looking for ancient pueblos. There are over a hundred ruins inside the monument in various condition.
Before we finished our hike, I dropped my new camera! It wouldn't focus properly after that. I had to put it in manual mode to get it to work at all. I was really sad and bummed out. After a little testing, I determined that I only broke the lens and my other two lenses still worked. Yay!!
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Canyons of the Ancients and the Anasazi Heritage Center
The Anasazi Heritage Center and Canyons of the Ancients National Monument is located on Highway 184 just a few kilometres northwest of Dolores, Colorado (or about 22 kilometres/14 miles north of Cortez, Colorado).
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Lowry Pueblo
Slideshow of the Lowry Pueblo ruins in the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument near Cortez, Colorado.
Hovenweep National Monument, Utah
Hovenweep National Monument is an Anasazi Indian ruin site located west of Cortez, Colorado and east of Bluff, Utah. The mountain in the distance is called Sleeping Ute Mountain The head and crossed arms are on the left. The view of Sleeping Ute Mountain from Mesa Verde NP makes the image much better.
Mesa Verde Cliff Dwelling Tour
Take a guided tour through Mesa Verde National Park's cliff dwellings of the Ancestral Pueblo people who lived here from AD 600 to 1300.
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Hovenweep National Monument Colorado Utah Pueblo Zuni Hopi Ancestral Puebloans Canyon Ancients Music
Hovenweep
National Monument
Colorado, Utah
Masonry that has stood for centuries
Once home to over 2,500 people,
Hovenweep includes six prehistoric
villages built between A.D. 1200 and 1300.
Explore a variety of structures,
including multistory towers perched
on canyon rims and
balanced on boulders.
The construction and attention to
detail will leave you marveling at
the skill and motivation of the builders.
Human Prehistory
Human habitation at Hovenweep
dates to over 10,000 years ago
when nomadic Paleoindians visited
the Cajon Mesa to gather
food and hunt game.
These people used the area
for centuries, following the seasonal
weather patterns. By about A.D. 900,
people started to settle at Hovenweep
year-round, planting and harvesting
crops in the rich soil
of the mesa top.
By the late 1200s, the Hovenweep
area was home to over 2,500 people.
Ancestral Puebloans
The towers of Hovenweep were
built by ancestral Puebloans,
a sedentary farming culture that
occupied the Four Corners area
from about A.D. 500 to A.D. 1300.
Similarities in architecture, masonry
and pottery styles indicate that the
inhabitants of Hovenweep were closely
associated with groups living at
Mesa Verde and other nearby sites.
The ancestral Puebloans prepared their
land for cultivation much
like farmers do today.
They created terraces on hillsides,
formed catch basins to hold storm
run-off, and built check dams to retain
topsoil that would otherwise wash away.
Storage granaries under the
canyon rims protected
harvests of corn, beans
and squash for later use.
Most of the structures at
Hovenweep were built between
A.D. 1200 and 1300.
There is quite a variety of shapes
and sizes, including square and
circular towers, D-shaped
dwellings and many kivas
(Puebloan ceremonial structures,
usually circular).
The masonry at Hovenweep is as
skillful as it is beautiful.
Even the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde
rarely exhibit such careful construction
and attention to detail.
Some structures built on
irregular boulders remain
standing after more than 700 years.
Many theories attempt to explain
the use of the buildings at Hovenweep.
The striking towers might have been
celestial observatories, defensive
structures, storage facilities,
civil buildings, homes or any
combination of the above.
While archeologists have found that
most towers were associated
with kivas, their actual
function remains a mystery.
Departure
By the end of the 13th century,
it appears a prolonged drought,
possibly combined with resource
depletion, factionalism and warfare, forced
the inhabitants of Hovenweep to depart.
Though the reason is unclear,
ancestral Puebloans throughout the area
migrated south to the
Rio Grande Valley in New Mexico
and the Little Colorado
River Basin in Arizona. Today's Pueblo,
Zuni and Hopi people are
descendants of this culture.
CONTACT THE PARK
Hovenweep National Monument
McElmo Route
Cortez, CO 81321
By Phone
Visitor Information
(970) 562-4282 ext. 10
By Fax
(970) 562-4283
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Canyon of the Ancients in Colorado
These are ancient ruins around Mesa Verde 1000 AD.
Pueblo II Dissemination Period Part A
This slide presentation concerns a time period called Pueblo II in New Mexico spanning roughly from A.D. 900 to 1150. This was a dissemination period for the Anasazi, an ancient people in the American Southwest-El Norte Mexicano. The Anasazi make cultural advances, and develop societies of regional influence. This period is also known as the Basin Classic period to describe when their population grows, move to live in canyon bottoms in the San Juan Basin of today’s New Mexico, and develop a remarkable culture. In this presentation, we will favor a discussion concerning the Chaco Culture in the San Juan Basin and the Mesa Verde, but include other cultures as well. The early part of this time has been described as the Anasazi developmental period.
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Number 10: Blackwater Draw.
Archaeology found in New Mexico near the town of Clovis, Blackwater Draw is one of the oldest archaeological sites in the US, with ancient artifacts upward of 12,000 years old being found there. To put that into perspective, that is around the time that mammoths roamed the land and arrows were the apex weaponry of the time.
This area’s claim to fame comes from the Paleoindians and the materials they would use. They had a unique type of projectile point, called the Clovis point, made from a mixture of jasper, obsidian and a few other types of brittle stone; although these arrowheads were very brittle, they were unbelievably sharp. Discovering these allowed archaeologists to date the arrowheads, as well as other artifacts of the find. Over the years there were more items have been found in the area, but the initial discovery of the Clovis arrowheads is still the biggest find in the region.
Today, the area has been made into the museum where you can see the ancient weaponry and admire photos from their discovery.
Number 9: Bighorn Medicine Wheel.
This piece of history is rather interesting for 2 reasons. First, it was supposedly used by American Indians to read the stars. And, second, because there are actually hundreds of Medicine Wheels throughout the US. It is actually quite likely that if you live in the US there is one relatively close to you right now.
What makes the Bighorn Medicine Wheel in Lovell, Wyoming special is that it’s the biggest one found to date, and is also the most studied. That particular wheel has been dated between 300 and 800 years old. These structures got their names from their shape and its uncanny likeliness to a wagon wheel; each of these has a central cairn that is large enough to sit in and spokes leading to an outer circle which also have a few cairns spread out throughout its circumference.
If you sit in the middle and look down at another cairn on the wheel they will lead you to a point on the horizon, archaeoastronomer Jack Eddy has studied these and has concluded that some of these pointed in the direction of the sunset and sunrise during the summer solstice while others point towards significant star alignments.
Number 8: Horseshoe Canyon.
Located in beautiful southern Utah, Horseshoe Canyon is a great place to visit for 2 reasons, if you are a hiking enthusiast, it has an incredible 7 mile hike through Canyonlands National Park. But, more to the point, it also has some of the best examples of Native American cave drawings you will ever find. This is especially impressive when you consider that some of the drawings are said to be among the oldest ever recorded, between 700 and 2000 years old. The most famous point is known as the Great Gallery and is over 200 feet wide and 15 feet high, featuring an array of life size anthropomorphic images as large as 7 feet tall.
To take the hike that will go past the drawings you will need to begin at the Goblin Valley State Park and take the 30 mile drive to the canyon before beginning your 7 mile round trip hike, viewing not only the drawings but all the nature that Utah has to offer.
Number 7: Nash Dinosaur Track Site.
If you want to walk where dinosaurs have walked, maybe even compare your foot size to that of beasts from millions of years ago, then luckily we know just the place you should visit! The Nash Dinosaur Track Site is located in South Hadley, Massachusetts in the Connecticut River Valley area, and is a great place to take your family to experience a piece of ancient history. The first tracks were found here back in 1802 by a farmer’s son named Pliny Moody and were that of a small, long extinct bird.
Although they didn’t know it at the time, that very fossilized footprint, as well as one other, would eventually make their way to Amherst college to be studied, bringing about the interest in the area and leading to the Nash Dinosaur track site being built in 1939…just one mile from the first footprints discovery.
If looking at tracks in the on-site museum and out in the surrounding areas of the park isn’t awesome enough for you then you can always buy your very own dinosaur footprint or fossils at the on-sight gift shop that is guaranteed to give your home that added classy edge that others just don’t have. I need to know, though…would you own your own dinosaur track? Let us know in the comments below!
Number 6: Crystal River Mounds.
This archaeological site is labeled one of America’s longest, continually occupied sites.
Painted Hands Site Canyon of the Ancients National Monument 2017
This is a full site walk through of the Painted Hand SIte in Canyon of the Ancients national monument. This is a very remote site, that may require 4wd to get to in wet weather in any season. Bring plenty of water in the summer and look out for snakes. As always, leave no trace.