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The Ancient Ones in our Back Yard

by | Sep 21, 2015 | 2015 Mountaintop PV Adventure

I stopped, and camped one night, at Hovenweep National Monument, on the southern Utah/Colorado state border. Established in 1923, this is the only monument in the Four Corners ares that hasn’t been excavated as an archaeological site; a concession to the tribes back then, as I understood it.
Exquisite stonework, still standing

Exquisite stonework, still standing… all of the stonework here was understood to be built in a short time period, around 1,200 AD, and then abandoned.

This is the head of the canyon where the spring provided the water of life. I learned that the trees are hackberrys, and they're indigenous.

This is the head of the canyon where the spring provided the water of life. I learned that the trees are hackberrys, and they’re indigenous.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The kindness of strangers! I often offer to photograph couples with their cameras, and one reciprocated here.

The kindness of strangers! I often offer to photograph couples with their cameras, and one reciprocated here.

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Sometimes the building remains were solidly rectilinear, and ...

Sometimes the building remains were solidly rectilinear, and …

... other times sensuously and sinuously curved.

… other times sensuously and sinuously curved.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And finally, to continue a blog tradition from last year’s long tour, a ghost bike:

This one kind of stumped me, up in a tree as it were...

This one kind of stumped me, up in a tree as it were…