Hovenweep Castle

The ancestral Ancient Puebloans (Anasazi) began to migrate from the Four Corners area to the Hovenweep region, bringing with them their advanced building skills. It was these Ancient Puebloans who built the first pueblos and masonry towers at Hovenweep between the years 1200 and 1300 A.D. With the increasing population, the Paleo Indians soon began building larger around fortress-like towers at the heads of box canyons. Successful at dry farming, the ancient peoples grew domesticated crops such as maize, beans, and squash were grown in terraced fields. They also formed catch basins to hold water, built check dams to retain soil that would otherwise wash away, and diverted water to edible wild plants such as beeweed, ground cherry, sedges, milkweed, cattail, and wolfberry. https://www.legendsofamerica.com/co-hovenweep/ https://www.nps.gov/hove/index.htm https://www.scenicusa.net/021610.html Created in RealityCapturing Reality from 994 images