We have so far spend our time visiting God's creations across this vast area so today we visit a man made site. We are told that natives lived in this area as far back as 1 AD and it was continually inhabited for over 1600 years.
There are over 2000 confirmed site in the park, many are just a hole in the ground were past inhabitants had built wood, straw and mud huts. The most interesting one are these cliff dweller ruins.
They chose large overhangs and uses natural rocks and mud mortar to build the walls
And uses wood to build floors inside to have 3 or 4 levels in the houses.
Notice the nice square and straight corners, they were able to cut the soft rocks with harder ones to built straight and true right up to the roof of the overhang.
Being under the rock overhang, kept the places dry and preserved them. They are much the same as they were when "discovered" in the 1880's.
Even here we had some tough climbs to get to the ruins. One really interesting mystery.
We are told that this area was continually inhabited for over 1600 years and that as many as fifty thousand people lived in the area but there is no cemetery, no burial ground and no human remains have ever been found.
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