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
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Trailhead
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Hovenweep National Monument
Hovenweep National Monument is located on land in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah, between Cortez, Colorado and Blanding, Utah on the Cajon Mesa of the Great Sage Plain.
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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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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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National Park
Service
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NPS
National Park
Service
credit NPS photos
State of Colorado, Utah USA
BLM, BOR
U.S. Department of the Interior
The Bureau of Land Management
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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
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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5.6.19
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NPS
National Park
Service
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U.S. Department of the Interior
The Bureau of Land Management
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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.
Hovenweep
Hovenweep National Mounument
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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Hovenweep Campground
This campground is within a few hundred metres of the various archeological sites and Native American ruins at Hovenweep National Monument. Hovenweep is located about 32 kilometres (20 miles) line-of-sight west of Cortez, Colorado on the Utah border. The name Hovenweep, which means deserted valley in Piute/Ute languages, was adopted by pioneer photographer William Henry Jackson in 1874. The ancient pueblo people lived in Hovenweep until the late 1200s at which time, it's estimated, most of the native peoples left the four corners area due to drought.
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Mesa Verde Ruins Colorado
My second ruin in 1 day, 150 miles apart. Mesa Verde is the Grand Daddy of the Pueblo People's ruins. You will see the Hopi connection on these ancient ruins. Tried to record as much as possible in an afternoon. To really see everything in this 80 sq. mile site would take a couple of days.