We had been here in the late 80's. They have done much to improve the site, making it more easily accessable, and providing a great deal more in the way of artifacts and history displays in the visitor center.
This 110 room pueblo was constructed by the Sinagua people between about 1050 and 1380 CE. It could have housed about 225 people.
The reconstruction of the ruin was done in the early 1930s asa a part of the "New Deal", providing lots of jobs for the people in the area during the Great Depression.
The archeological work started out on a hill that looked like a pile of rubble. Reconstructions was based on the artifacts and their possition in the ruin, tree ring dating, and walls built on top of others. But the biggest clues were in the trash heaps that were down the hill from the pueblo. When something like a pot broke, it was tossed out, down the hill, one generation of trash on top of the previous.
It was nice to explore Tuzigoot again, and we recommend it to those that may have similar interests.
More information is available at http://www.nps.gov/tuzi/index.htm
How the ruins look now
How they looked before excavation began
"BEEP-BEEP"
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