Wherever humans gather, it seems, we feel compelled to do or create something so future generations will know that we (or somebody, anyways) has been there before them. We found a lot of interesting stuff along those lines when we were in Moab. Tho' there are some in the area which date back as far as 5,500 BC, these ones are from the Formative Period, approximately AD 1 to AD 1880:
And from Canyon de Chelly (d'SHAY), south of Moab en route to Tucson, a village built by the Pueblo people some time between AD 750 and 1300. It represents one of the first indications of a move from dispersed hamlets of a few families to a much larger settlement:
This village is built at the bottom of the canyon, where it would be protected from extremes of temperature (and can't we all relate to that?) There was a hiking path to it but we declined on the grounds that we didn't have enough time to do a round trip involving a drop of 600 feet over a distance of 1 mile. Well, time was somewhat of a factor but mainly it was the gasp factor that put us off.
Then there are the mementos from what might be referred to as the Deformative Period:
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| Massive cleanup project from uranium mining |
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| Bozo alert, bozo alert.... |
Say no more...
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