Sunday, August 7, 2011

Chimney Rock Archaeological and Historic Site, continued

The ancestral Puebloan people built there homes next to the twin pinnacles of Chimney Rock. They started building in the 900's AD and left by the mid 1200. Why they left the valley and their farms to built high up on the mesa is unknown. Chimney Rock is believed to be an outlier community connected with Chaco Canyon.

Below, grinding corn into maize.
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