History
Besh-Ba-Gowah is a prehistoric Salado masonry pueblo on a ridge above Pinal Creek near Globe, Arizona, occupied from about AD 1225 to 1400. With roughly 200 rooms, it is one of the principal places used to define Salado culture and is regarded as one of its type sites. Its multi-storied masonry room blocks, long narrow corridors or elongated plazas, and central communal plaza are notable features, as are granite cobble walls set in clay mortar and often plastered interiors. During the Depression, federally funded excavations and reconstruction made it one of Arizona’s few surviving stabilized archaeological work-relief projects. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
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Globe, Arizona · United States
