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Multi-periodSite Name: Tusayan Ruins
Country: United States Region: The Southwest Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Williams, AZ
Latitude: 36.013400N  Longitude: 111.8662W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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mfrincu visited on 20th Jun 2014 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Nice bonus to our Grand Canyon visit. It contains a museum with local artifacts and some information on the inhabitants. I suspect the kiva's vent to point to the winter solstice sunrise but accurate measurements are needed. It definitely points E-SE.

jeffrep visited on 26th Sep 2012 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5

bat400 TheCaptain have visited here

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Tusayan Ruins
Tusayan Ruins submitted by jeffrep : Tusayan Ruins in the Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Tusayan Ruins, Ancient Settlement in Coconina County, Arizona. This small ruin lies within the Grand Canyon National Park.

It consists of the foundations of a settlement that was used for approximately 20 years around 1200 AD. The people who built the village are known as the Ancestral Puebloans. Unlike more spectacularly situated and well known pueblo ruins found in red rock canyons in the south west, this village was built on flat land on the south rim of the Grand Canyon. The stone masonry rooms formed a "U" shape facing south.

The foundations include hearths, posthole indications, and storage pits. Specific features are highlighted on interpretive signs. Of most interest are two circular rooms assumed by their layouts to be Kivas. (In historic Pueblo cultures the Kiva is a room used for ceremonies that in all or part are open only to initiates. This aspect of the culture, by both current practice, oral tradition and archeological finds like these rooms, is shown to have a prehistoric origin.) An area to the east of the village appears to have irrigation and features associated with fields.

A small museum is nearby, interpreting the site in regard to what is known of the areas prehistory. Artifacts found at the site, including tools, pottery and baskets are shown in the museum. One of the more unique artifacts are small twig figures of animals.

[Information from signage at the site, and Native Roads: The Complete Motoring Guide to the Navajo and Hopi Nations, Fran Kosik, 1996.]

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Tusayan Ruins submitted by TheCaptain : Tusayan Ruins in an old decaying photo from 1990. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Tusayan Ruins submitted by mfrincu : Great Kiva. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Tusayan Ruins submitted by jeffrep : Large Kiva, Tusayan Ruins, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Tusayan Ruins submitted by jeffrep : Tusayan Ruins in the Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Tusayan Ruins submitted by jeffrep

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Tusayan Ruins submitted by bat400 : Large Kiva at Tusayan Ruins, Coconino County, Arizona. The Tusayan ruins at the Grand Canyon National Park show two separate circular ruins that may have been ceremonial rooms, or Kivas. The smaller one appeared to have burned, was made into some other sort of space. This is the foundation of the larger Kiva, seemingly built later that the first. There was a firepit in the center of the room...

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Research Examines Ancient Puebloans and the Myth of Maize by bat400 on Thursday, 16 May 2013
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The following article is on research done at Site MU 125, a different Ancentral Puebloan site in the Kaibab National Forest just south of the Grand Canyon. MU 125 dates earlier than "Tusayan Ruins." The site is backfilled to protect it and it is not readily accessible to the general public.

Submitted by coldrum and from the University of Cincinnati's news releases:.

A University of Cincinnati graduate student archaeologist theorizes that ancient Puebloans used a variety of food sources beyond maize. Her research will be presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

UC ingot Research from the University of Cincinnati shows that perhaps the ancient Puebloans weren’t as into the maize craze as once thought.

Nikki Berkebile, a graduate student in anthropology in UC’s McMicken College of Arts & Sciences, has been studying the subsistence habits of Puebloans, or Anasazi, who lived on the southern rim of the Grand Canyon in the late 11th century. Traditional ethnographic literature indicates these ancient American Indians were heavily dependent on maize as a food source, but Berkebile isn’t so sure about that.

“I’m trying to assess sustainable subsistence strategies within the time period of the site,” Berkebile says. “I’m not trying to bash anyone who says maize is not on the table, because I have maize in my samples. I’m just saying maize is not as important as once thought.”

Berkebile will present her research, “Investigating Subsistence Diversity in the Upper Basin: New Archaeobotanical Analysis at MU 125,” at the 78th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), held April 3-7 in Honolulu.

The MU 125 archaeological site in northern Arizona features a multi-room masonry structure occupied by the ancient Puebloans from 1070-1090. Berkebile looks for ancient plant remains inside soil samples excavated from the site. She uses a “flotation” technique to reveal the secrets hidden within the ancient earth. By dropping the soil into water-filled buckets and swirling them just right, the lightweight bits of plants will rise to the water’s surface, allowing them to be skimmed off. Berkebile analyzes and catalogs those often tiny plant fragments with help from a small team of fellow graduate and undergraduate students.

What she’s found so far suggests the Puebloans of MU 125 dined on much more than just maize. Berkebile has uncovered many examples of other plant life the Puebloans might have used as a food source such as purslane, pinyon nut, juniper berries, globemallow and even cactus. The diverse amount of wild resources combined with the area’s scarcity of water and seasonal climate – prone to periods of drought and frost – makes Berkebile think the Puebloans had to rely on more than maize to survive.

“If you think about the climate of the Upper Basin, there’s only 145 frost-free days in which you could grow maize,” Berkebile says. “What are you going to do for those months when you don’t have anything?”

Berkebile thinks it’s likely the Puebloans lived at the MU 125 site year-round and to do so they would have needed to develop sustainable agricultural methods that complemented their maize crops. She uses the plant samples she’s found at the site to assess the Puebloans’ agricultural strategy. Her research splits the strategy into three categories:

- Cultivated wild resources: These are hardy and easy-to-cultivate plants that existed in the Southwest a thousand years before maize. Examples at MU 125 include purslane, globemallow and chenopodium.

- Gathered wild resources: These are also Southwestern plants that predated maize, but they weren’t necessarily actively cultivated. Puebloans would gather what they needed from these plants and bring them home to process. Examples at MU 125 include pinyon

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Re: Tusayan Ruins by TimPrevett on Tuesday, 04 December 2012
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Quite a bit in Coconino country! Must look 'em up when I get to go back. Whenever that may be!
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