Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Ancestral Puebloans of Mesa Verde

The Four Corners region of the United States, located where the states of Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico meet, is a place of dramatic landscapes and natural beauty. It epitomizes the Wild West but was also once home to one of the most fascinating indigenous cultures in North America. The Ancestral Puebloans left behind some of the most sophisticated and impressive settlements on Earth with whole communities and settlements tucked away in the cliffs of canyon walls. But these feats of engineering didn't happen overnight. Join me as we travel to Mesa Verde in Southwestern Colorado and explore these magnificent communities and the people who built them!