History
Yucca House National Monument preserves one of the largest largely unexcavated Ancestral Puebloan settlements in the Mesa Verde region, in southwestern Colorado at the foot of Sleeping Ute Mountain. Occupied roughly between AD 1100 and 1300, the village was part of a dense network of communities in Montezuma Valley and included about 600 rooms, 100 kivas, towers, plazas, and a great kiva. Its two main settlement areas contained large pueblos, springs, adobe construction, and unusually tall surviving walls. First recorded in the 1870s, the site was later mapped, partly excavated, and protected beginning in 1919, while much of its history remains buried and not yet fully understood.
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Towaoc, Colorado · United States
