Santa Fe, New Mexico
Found pottery shards at Bandelier on the mesa top. It is illegal and unethical to take them. Someone has put their collection in one place to view.
Inside a dwelling with rock art.
John and Jen among the ruins. Tsankawi was built by Ancestral Puebloans in the 1400's. The people stayed until the late 1500's. In the Tewa language of the nearby Pueblo people, the name for Tsankawi means "village between two canyons at the clump of sharp, round cacti". the settlment had 350 rooms
John at the doorway to a dwelling. The rooms were constructed of tuff blocks, shaped using harder stones, and laid up with mud mortar. Walls were then plastered inside and out. Roofs were made of wood and mud.
Distant storm and mesa with ruins.
Many sections of the trail are worn through 8 to 12 inches of solid rock. They were cut and worn into the rock by generations of ancestral Pueblo people, barefooted or in sandals, passing back and forth fromtheir mesa-top homes to the fields and to springs in the canyons below.