This wonderful card has good information in the text: located near Los Alamos, Frijoles Canyon is 17 miles long and the creek runs year round with snow melt and summer rains, enabling ancestral Pueblo peoples to grow crops. They built rooms for shelter and storage, occupying the site 1100-1600AD. The area also has kivas and rock paintings.
Bandelier was designated as a National Monument in 1916 by President Wilson and named for the southwestern archaeologist Adolph Bandelier. Hopefully this (and all ancient sites) will continue to be protected!
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