Tuzigoot (Apache for "crooked water") is the remnant of a Southern Sinagua village built between 1125 and 1400. It crowns the summiot of a long ridge that rises 120 feet above the Verde Valley. the original pueblo was two stories high in places, with 77 ground-level rooms. There were few exterior doors; entry was by was of ladders through openings in the roofs. The village began as a small cluser of rooms inhabited by about 50 persons for 100 years. In the 1200s the population doubled and then doubled again as refugee farmers, fleeing drought in the outlying areas, settled here.
No one knows why the Southern Sinagua abandoned their pueblos in the early 1400s. Possible explaniations include over-population, depletion of natural resources, disease, conflicts within and between groups, changes in weather patterns, and perhaps even spiritual beliefs.
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I have been there it was so cool you felt the energy of the people from long ago.
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