received 2 more great New Mexico cards from a fellow Postcrosser. Bandelier National Monument is located south of Los Alamos, NM and was home to Ancestral Puebloan peoples who lived in the canyons and on the mesa tops sometime around 1200AD. The large round structure is a Kiva, an underground religious space; climbing the ladder re-enacts man's journey from below ground into the present reality. Environment and social pressure encouraged the people to move to the Rio Grande and establish other settlements in the 1500s.
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