Tusayan Ruins

Tusayan Ruins, or Tusayan Pueblo, is an approximately 800-year-old archaeological site in Grand Canyon National Park and one of Arizona’s major archaeological sites. Its remains form a small U-shaped pueblo with living quarters, storage rooms, and a kiva. Tree-ring studies show it was occupied for only about twenty years beginning around 1185, giving it unusual value as evidence from a narrow span of time. The site is seen as preserving the survival of an isolated Pueblo II culture into the Pueblo III era, capturing a transitional moment in the region’s ancestral Pueblo history. It was excavated in 1930, preserved further in 1948 and 1965, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

Arizona · United States