Traveling Cargopants

A journey into the west, the self, and beyond

Mesa Verde National Park

| October 14, 2009

Mesa Verde (link, link)… What a cool place! The Ancestral Puebloan people (i.e. Native Americans) were living a nomadic lifestyle until around 550 A.D. when they decided to settle into this area. Their initial settlements were “pit houses”, built by digging a pit in the ground, then covering it with timber and other basic roofing [...]