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Sunday, April 12, 2009

Visit Beyond Mesa Verde


If you have not visited my site "Beyond Mesa Verde" that is where I have much more information with links that  should be checked out if you are planning a visit to Southeastern Utah. Click on the name of the site to have the link take you there: BEYOND MESA VERDE

Rick

Long Fingers Ruin

These hand pictographs are located directly across the wash from Long Fingers Ruin.


If you look to the right side of this photo, you will see why this ruin was named Long Fingers.


Here is a very large spiral that is on the canyon wall over looking the Long Finger/Boomerang Ruin site.

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Boomerang Ruin

This ruin is called Boomerang - it is on ledge above the Long Fingers Ruin.

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Cave Towers Ruins

This granary is located on the side of the canyon wall of Mule Canyon, below Cave Towers (not to be confused with Tower House). This granary is the one that was seen in an episode of the TV show - " Digging For The Truth"- with 800 year old corn cobs still in it.

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Fish Creek Canyon


Well known ruin in Lower Fish Creek Canyon.



This is the first ruin you come to in Lower Fish Creek Canyon.




These hands are located in the first ruin you come to in Lower Fish Creek.


A seldom noticed broken metate off the trail in Lower Fish Creek

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Owl Creek Canyon

Owl Creek Canyon Ruin

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Yellow House Ruin

Yellow House Ruin in Shieks Canyon

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Yellow House

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Tower House Ruin

This is a view of the back of Tower House Ruin
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Montezuma Creek


Not much of a ruin here, but a pretty large Kokopelli and centipede not far from the Honeycomb Granary


Granary in Montezuma Creek - notice the petroglyph high above the door.


Another small granary in Montezuma Creek.
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Monarch Cave Ruin

Here is another shot of the broken metate that has been sitting at Monarch Ruin for over 800 years.


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Ballroom Ruin

"Jumping Men" at Ballroom Ruin.
Also known as "Lizard Man"
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Anasazi Adventure Website

.....For those of you who wish to expand your knowledge on a much wider spectrum. I would like to direct you to the site Anasazi Adventure.  It deals with many of the different cultures of America’s Ancient southwest including the Ancestral Puebloans ("Anasazi"), Fremont, Sinagua, Hohokam, Mimbres and others.  This site is maintained by Eric Skopec. Ph.D.

.....Mr. Skopec is a retired professor, consultant, and author of many books and publications.  He has spent more than 25 years studying the Ancestral Puebloans.  His web site is a great resource for the ruins throughout the whole of the southwest. Here you can find trip planners, visitor guides, travel advisories and current archeological news.  

http://www.anasaziadventure.com/

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