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The only known inhabitance of the ancient Mogollon Culture, built around 1275-1280 AD, then abandoned by 1300 AD. Mysterious people; mysterious disappearance. Who, where from, where gone to, why, and why so soon?
A fascinating and beautiful place. Pics taken earlier this month. What's just as fascinating is that anyone found these remains; stuck deep into, and above a very narrow canyon. Now a great National Monument. Try to see this. Put it on your list.
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Very interesting that people lived here. If I remember correctly, it was a 2 mile hike to flat cultivation land once you climbed down the cliff. Must have been a very hard life, but safe from most any other warring tribes.
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on the road to Monument Valley, UT, maybe it is HW 160 there is an old motel and restaurant that was built in the 1940s and was build for the workers in the uranium minds which were there. About a mile down the road from this motel there is a unmarked road that ends at a cliff over a deep narrow canyon. There about 75 feet above the bottom of the canyon we found these Anasazi ruins. Hard to see in the photo but the ground is still littered with what are likely 1000 year old corncobs. Because of the walk down the canyon being so tight and narrow and the distance up from the bottom with no way to climb up these are probably still untouched and undisturbed.
Edits: 04/19/14
but they may be lurking! I would think these are protected lands...
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I've been there. It was fascinating to consider how or why that location was selected. It's highly defensible, that might have had a lot to do with it.
And then, if you head north just a bit, you can visit Chaco Canyon - the center of the known universe for that part of the world from 850 to 1250 AD. They came from everywhere to visit and trade there.
Great place. I went there in the early 90's on a cross country motorcycle trip. I love the SW but couldn't live there.
ET
Must've sucked to live there.
Maybe that's why they left.
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I wonder if those guys were cannibals, as were the C d C folks?
No, I am not claiming I lived there in a past life, but I have been there as a teenager, and also in the Chiricahua Mountains, which you posted about a week or so ago.
In the summers of 1979 and 1980 I was a "Trekker" in the Prairie Trek (Cottonwood Gulch Foundation) in Thoreau, NM. Ever heard of it? It's an amazing organization that was founded by a fellow named Hillis Howie from Indianapolis back in the 1920s I believe, who was still running it in the 1950s when my Dad was a Trekker. Mr. Howie was gone but not forgotten when my brother and I participated, and is legendary to this day as well.
The base camp is in Thoreau (pronounce "threw" by the locals as I recall). Trekkers spend 1/3 of the 7 weeks there and 2/3s of the time on the road exploring the 4 corner states. At the base camp, Trekkers live in open cabins and on the road in canvas tents, or just under tarps on hikes.
Such a beautiful and mystical part of the world.
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Moving to this region from Alaska has been a bit (!) of culture shock for me, but I'm starting to warm up to it -- literally.
I was there years ago, but didn't get much in the way of pictures. Thanks for posting yours.
Neil
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