Ancestral Puebloans

“Beginning fifteen hundred years ago and lasting for the following seven hundred years, the Ancestral Puebloans lived in this valley, creating villages whose traces remain today. They created cliff-dwellings, granaries and religious sites across many generations. These places are now important archeological sites, highlighting a people with advanced understanding of the celestial sciences who grew crops that included corn, beans and squash on the land that is now Zion National Park. The histories of this agricultural past connecting the initial deposits of sediment left by oceans through to contemporary time, linking one people to the next.”

This is Twelve Thousand Years (7), from a new edition of photographs featuring the landscapes of Zion National Park by Lincoln Schatz.