In the early 1100s, travelers on this familiar path could see a sprawling settlement ahead. Across the river, ceremonial kivas and great houses with hundreds of rooms dominated the landscape. Smaller house-style unit pueblos and farming areas spread up and down the river valley. Today the modern landscape hides its secrets, but below the surface researchers find evidence of an Ancestral Pueblo community and its distinct version of age-old human habitation: farming, hunting, digging ditches, and hauling wood. Though what they thought or felt cannot be known, it is known that people here made pots, wove fabrics, and grew medicinal herbs. They laughed and loved, told stories and played games, cooked favorite meals, bore children, and reared generations of daughters and sons.