Aztec Ruins National Monument Administrative History of an Archeological Preserve
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Click the above link to read the following chapters: The chapters include: 1 An Anasazi Village Misnamed Aztec
2 Earl Halstead Morris And The Aztec Ruins
3 Peeling Away Prehistory
4 A House In Ruins
5 A National Monument, Stillborn
6 The Decade Of Dissention, 1923-1933The
7 The Great Depression & Capital
Improvements
8 Miller Administration, 1937-1944
9 Satellite Attractions
10 The Mission of Mission 66
11 The Last Quarter Century And Beyond
12 Stabilization: The High Cost Of Water
13 Specimen Collections: Recent
Assessments And Their Significance For
Future Research
Did You Know?
Access to many rooms and levels of ancient Pueblo communities required ladders. The museum at Aztec Ruins contains this unique ladder excavated with bindings intact (shown with girl, ca. 1917). Today ladders represent a symbolic portal between two spiritual realms of the Pueblo universe.