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Most park visitors arrive by automobile and view Canyon de Chelly from the rim, following both North Rim Drive and South Rim Drive. Ancient ruins and geologic structures are visible, but in the distance, from turnoffs on each of these routes. Deep within the park is Mummy Cave. It features structures that have been built at various times in ...
Ruins located in the Petrified Forest National Park: Antelope House: Canyon de Chelly Ruins located in Canyon de Chelly National Monument: Awatovi: Navajo County: Ruins Bailey Ruin: Pinedale, Arizona: Ruins of a multistoried pueblo of 200–250 rooms, AD 1275–1325 (late Pueblo III Era and/or early Pueblo IV Era). Betatakin: Ancestral Pueblo ...
In turn, additional improvements were made in the following years. The mummy is the only known mummy to be acquired by the Smithsonian from the monument. The first park ranger was Doc Campbell, an early settler to the region. He helped National Park Service crews stabilize the ruins. The Campbells still guide wilderness trips from their ...
Navajo National Monument is a national monument located within the northwest portion of the Navajo Nation territory in northern Arizona, which was established to preserve three well-preserved cliff dwellings of the Ancestral Puebloan people: Keet Seel (Broken Pottery) (Kitsʼiil), Betatakin (Ledge House) (Bitátʼahkin), and Inscription House (Tsʼah Biiʼ Kin).
Ancestral Puebloan ruins in Dark Canyon Wilderness, Utah. In this later period, the Pueblo II became more self-contained, decreasing trade and interaction with more distant communities. Southwest farmers developed irrigation techniques appropriate to seasonal rainfall, including soil and water control features such as check dams and terraces.
A canteen (pot), dated about AD 1075 to 1300, excavated from the ruins in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Chalcedony Knife (AD 1000–1200) from Chaco Culture National Historical Park 12th century sandal from Chaco Culture National Historical Park. Corrugated gray ware and decorated black-on-white pottery were prevalent in the beginning of the Period ...
Pueblo II Era – 900–1150 . About 900, the number of Hovenweep residential sites increased. [9] Like the people at Mesa Verde and Canyon de Chelly National Monument, about 1100 the Hovenweep village communities moved from mesa tops to the heads of canyons.
Mummy Cave is a rock shelter and archeological site in Park County, Wyoming, United States, near the eastern entrance to Yellowstone National Park.The site is adjacent to the concurrent U.S. Routes 14/16/20, [1] on the left bank of the North Fork of the Shoshone River [2]: xii at an altitude of 6,310 feet (1,920 m) in Shoshone National Forest.