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We were in Tonto National Forest (which houses Roosevelt Dam/Lake) pretty late, so I didn't get a chance to hike closer to these cliff dwellings this day. So, just a couple pictures from the parking lot.
Today I founded a company and my parents don't know it yet. Now I have responsibilities that not even they can begin to comprehend.
There are dwellings cut into the cliffs above the Pueblo village of Tyuoniyi. The two sets of houses were apparently contemporary. The Pueblos Loop Trail climbs the cliff face to visit them. Ladders have been put at some of the dwellings so that hikers can climb in and see them.
Built between circa 1200 and 1280, this Ancestral Puebloan Cliff Dwelling is known as Spruce Tree House. The building is the third-largest cliff dwelling at Mesa Verde, containing 130 rooms and 8 kivas, built into a natural alcove in the cliff face. The dwelling occupies a space approximately 216 feet (66 meters) wide and 89 feet (27 meters) deep, and is thought to have housed between 60 and 80 people. When discovered in 1888, it was named for the large spruce tree that existed in front of it, which was cut down by a subsequent explorer. The structure was stabilized and reconstituted circa 1908, as part of the restoration of the larger cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde, as well as being investigated archaeologically at this time. The ruin, due to its protected location underneath a ledge, is one of the best-preserved cliff dwellings in the park. The structure and the park were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, and were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978. Today, Spruce Tree House is closed to visitors, and has been since 2015, with studies to stabilize loose rocks above the building underway.
These dwellings are from a partially excavated site of the Elden Pueblo indigenous peoples who inhabited this site from probably 1070 to 1275.
Estas viviendas son de un sitio parcialmente excavado de la tribu indígena puebla Elden que probablemente habitó esta área desde 1070 hasta 1275.
Photo taken from an Anasazi Indian site. Looking up the hillside from what may have been someone's porch a long time ago.
The ants, the birds, the termites, the spiders have their different kinds of abodes.
People, wherever they live, start to build their dwellings thru their imagination.
Whatever your situation in the world we live, we design and live our preffered homes. Whatever is it, theres no other place we called home.
I envied the hermit crab.