Wanted Baylee to experience more ruins. She had been to Mesa Verde when she was younger but one can never experience too many ruins. Each has it's own fascination.We drove miles down a dirt road back to Palatki. What a wonderful place for the Sinagua ( without water) to build their homes(1100 to 1400 a.d.) and to plant their crops. You can no longer get to the ruins as there is a crack in the cliff above the pueblos. You may only view them from afar. Then on to Tuzigoot (Apache for crooked water) just out side of Clarkdale, Az. by the Verde river. There are 2 to 3 story pueblos with 110 rooms. These were built from 1125 to 1400 a.d. It sits on top of a hill with a 360 degree view of the valley.
We did learn there, that if a child died, the parents would bury the child beneath their floor to keep the child close to them
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