Many questions surround the people who built the cliff dwelling along the upper Gila River within the canyons natural caves. While many different people lived in the area for thousands of years only one group was motivated to build inside the caves, but they stayed no longer than one generation which puzzles archeologists today. These dwelling differ from those of the ancestral Puebloan people north of the area we explored a few years back. These people grew corn beans and squash in the valley near by before leaving the area. The structures were built between 1276 and 1287 moving on in 1300.
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