Channel: Primitive Pathways

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Description: primitivepathways.com Share the adventure of visiting Mesa Verde National Park. Billy Berger takes you on a tour through the 800-year-old pueblo called Balcony House and then the artifacts on display at the Chapin Museum. The Ancestral Puebloans were farmers and hunter/gatherers and they mastered living in the harsh and unforgiving desert environment of the Four Corners region. Exactly why these people abandoned their pueblos is uncertain, but it's believed a series of prolonged droughts around 1230-1250 A.D. caused successive crop failures that forced the Anasazi into other areas. This was a widespread occurrence in the Four Corners region with numerous cultures abandoning their traditional homelands. It's also likely that at least some conflict and war broke out due to the lack of food and resources. These people were once referred to as the Anasazi, but they're now known as Ancestral Puebloans. The Hopi and Zuni (among other modern Puebloan people) are direct descendants of the Ancestral Puebloans who once lived at Mesa Verde. Domesticated wild turkeys were an important animal to the ancient people. They were like our modern , and DNA tests of the turkeys owned by modern Puebloans have been compared to the DNA of the ancient turkey bones that have been recovered and they match, showing that the turkeys they own are also direct descendants of the