[ADXA] Fwd: Gila Cliff Dwellings

[Richard Harris]

For you NPOTA fans.... 132 q's in the log from this very remote location!
73 Rick
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From: Richard Harris <rickai5p at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 8:47 AM
Subject: Gila Cliff Dwellings
To: T Dimas <trent.dimas at gmail.com>, Lisa Dimas <lisa.dimas at gmail.com>,
"H.H.T. Dimas" <hudson.h.dimas at gmail.com>, Cappy Dimas <
cappy.dimas98 at gmail.com>, Mike Featherston <fetherms at tx.rr.com>, H
Kristjansdottir <hvammur at prodigy.net>, Garry Hammond <ve3xn at persona.ca>,
Rick <jrburke at nf.sympatico.ca>, Richard Harris <rickai5p at gmail.com>


This National Monument lies 44 miles north of Silver City, New Mexico. The
drive is 1.5-2 hours over a road with many turns and switchbacks. The
533-acre site is surrounded by the 558,000-acre Gila Wilderness, part of
the 3.3 million acres of public forest and rangeland within the Gila
National Forest. You won't run across this site by accident - you have to
want to go there!

The ancient Puebloan people who built these cliff dwellings belonged to a
larger tradition that included part of what is now Arizona, New Mexico,
Texas, and northern Mexico. Archeologists call this the Mogollon area. Its
pottery styles and buildings differ slightly from those of the ancestral
Puebloan areas farther north. The Puebloans who once lived here grew corn,
beans, and squash, foraged the fertile Gila River valley and surrounding
forests for native plants, and hunted the area's game. Departing from
traditional regional dwelling forms, they built their pueblo inside the
caves of Cliff Dweller Canyon with rock, mortar, and timber felled between
1276 and 1287. The pottery found in the caves suggests that they came from
the Tularosa River region to the north. During a time of many migrations in
the Southwest, they moved on by around 1300.

In 1907 President Teddy Roosevelt proclaimed Gila Cliff Dwellings National
Monument to prevent further damage and vandalism to the cliff dwellings.

Pictures:

1. View from the drive up to the site

2. Entrance to park

3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.  Views of the cliff dwellings
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