BGuthrie Photos: CO -- Hovenweep Natl Monument

CO -- Hovenweep Natl Monument:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. HOV_030530_001_STITCH.JPG: Left to right: Hovenweep House, Square Tower, and Hovenweep Castle
2. HOV_030530_006.JPG: Stronghold House.
3. HOV_030530_014.JPG: Boulder House. This was actually built inside the overhang of a large boulder, using the boulder as part of its roof and walls.
4. HOV_030530_015.JPG: Left to right: Twin Towers, Rim Rock House, and eroded Boulder House (in the valley).
5. HOV_030530_021.JPG: Unit Type House. This building dates from about 1300AD.
6. HOV_030530_031.JPG: Left to right: Twin Towers, Rim Rock House
7. HOV_030530_038.JPG: Hovenweep Castle. It was built around 1200AD (about the same time European castles were being built). It's presumed that some of the rooms were used for astronomical observation, probably to help people determine planting and growing cycles.
8. HOV_030530_041.JPG: Hovenweep Castle
9. HOV_030530_043.JPG: Square Tower. This is considered Hovenweep's best-known tower. It is rectangular in shape, unlike the others that are more circular.
10. HOV_030530_056.JPG: Twin Towers (I think) @ Hovenweep National Monument
11. HOV_030530_060.JPG: Hovenweep Castle
12. HOV_030530_068.JPG: Hovenweep Castle
13. HOV_030530_110.JPG: Round Tower.
14. HOV_030530_117.JPG: Rim Rock House
15. HOV_030530_121.JPG: Left to right: Hovenweep House, Square Tower (in the canyon), and Hovenweep Castle.
16. HOV_030530_144.JPG: Twin Towers. These are two-story apartments with, between them, a total of 16 rooms.
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Wikipedia Description: Hovenweep National Monument
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Hovenweep National Monument straddles the Colorado-Utah border west of Cortez, Colorado, United States. President Warren G. Harding proclaimed Hovenweep a National Monument on March 2, 1923. The Monument consists of six clusters of Native American ruins. Four of these are in Colorado: Holly Canyon, Hackberry Canyon, Cutthroat Castle and Goodman Point. In Utah, the two sets of ruins are known as Square Tower and Cajon. The modest Monument headquarters is located at Square Tower Group between Pleasant View, Colorado and Hatch Trading Post, Utah.

Discovery:

In 1854, W.D. Huntington and an expedition of colonists from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were the first people of European descent to see the Hovenweep ruins, which were already known to the Ute and Navajo tribes. The name Hovenweep, which means "deserted valley" in Piute/Ute languages, was adopted by pioneer photographer William Henry Jackson in 1874. The name is apt as a description of the area's desolate canyons and barren mesas as well as the ruins of ancient communities.

In 1903, T. Mitchell Pruden reported the results of a comprehensive survey completed of prehistoric ruins of the San Juan watershed in Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. He saw many examples of the destruction caused by early collectors, who pulled down the walls of ruined dwellings, dug beneath the rooms, and unearthed associated burial mounds. In the Hovenweep area, he reported, Few of the mounds have escaped the hands of the destroyer. Cattlemen, ranchmen, rural picnickers, and professional collectors have turned the ground well over and have taken out much pottery, breaking more, and strewing the ground with many crumbling bones. In 1917–18, ethnologist J. Walter Fewkes of the Smithsonian Institution included descriptions of the ruins in published archaeological survey reports, and recommended the structures be protected.

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