4/11/2011

            There wasn’t much to see at Mesa Verde so we drove to Anasazi Heritage Center. I didn’t get new information because I got most of it at Mesa Verde but I still saw some COOL stuff. We went to Hovenweep Nation Monument and got a campsite for the night. Tomorrow we’ll go on the small ruin loop. [MH] Myles saw some petro glyphs and we bought a junk lasagna dinner[ZH].  Hovenweep is quite isolated and not very visited.  We are learning that while the cliff dwellers were living in their dwellings, there were many more ancient puebloans living in villages living on the mesa tops.   very similar to the pueblo people of today. One large settlement was in Hovenweep and was 5-10 times bigger than anything they have found at Mesa Verde.