Recommended Website:
Castle Rock Pueblo Field Trips
For anyone who has an interest in the Anasazi, or Native Americans of the Southwest, or Puebloan Indians, or cliff dwellings in the Mesa Verde — this site is for you!
From the main page, click on “Education” and then click the link for “Student Resources”, which leads to “A Trip Through Time”. Once you have clicked on this, you can take 3 different field trips of the Castle Rock Pueblo region at the Crow Canyon archaeological site focusing on 3 different historical time periods: 1200’s, 1800’s, and 1990’s. On each trip you collect clues to solve a mystery as you read the detailed history and look at photographs, maps, sketches and paintings of the adobe and stone pueblo dwellings, ancient artifacts, and petroglyphs. As you read the account of the region and the people who lived there, you may come across words that are unfamiliar (i.e., kiva, Hopi, Zuni, adobe, etc.). These words are highlighted in the text — if you click on them a definition from the Glossary pops up. You will also learn much about methods used by archaeologists when they excavate sites of historical significance. This is one of the best-presented and carefully crafted educational sites that we have seen — don’t miss it!
