flyvapnet:Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Arizona by EC Leatherberry on Flickr. Via Flickr: T
flyvapnet: Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Arizona by EC Leatherberry on Flickr. Via Flickr: The ruin is from the Hokokam people, an ancient farming people who used irrigation canals to support their permanent settlements. Around 1150, life began to change for the Hokokam people. They began to concentrate in large villages and built bigger structures. It is estimated that this ruin was completed prior to 1350. Around the 1400s, Hohokam culture ebbed, and by 1694, when Europeans entered the area, the village with the Great House was vacant. Because of vandalism and other acts of desecration, the area became the nation’s first archeological preserve in 1892. The canopy was erected in 1932 to protect the Grand House. -- source link