Lowry Pueblo Ruins
The Lowry Pueblo is located about 9 miles west of highway 666 at Pleasant View, Colorado. Lowry Pueblo was constructed by the Anasazi about AD 1060, on top of the ruined pit houses of an eighth century ancestral culture. The inhabitants were farmers who raised corn, beans, squash and tobacco. Stone working and pottery making were very important industries. Anasazi homes exhibited fine masonry construction techniques; and rooms were often plastered inside and painted with bold geometric designs. Lowry Pueblo was used for living quarters and ritual ceremonies by a community of about 100 people.
In 1965 efforts to excavate and preserve Lowry were renewed. This site is located on public land administered by the Bureau of Land Management. After more than two years of uncovering the site again and repairing the eroded masonry, Lowry Pueblo was dedicated as a National Historic Landmark in 1967. The Anasazi remodeled modified and expanded the pueblo at least for or five times.
Just a hundred yards or so away is one of the largest Great Kivas found in the area!
Quite to my surprise, I found that the Lowry Ruins were not totally un-inhabited. I found this fellow sun bathing in one of the rooms. I decided that maybe he had friends and that it would be best to not disturb the residents...
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