The area’s history goes back to ancient times, when the Ancestral Puebloans lived there between 300 BCE and 1250 CE. Today, it remains part of the ancestral homeland of the Navajo (Diné), Zuni, and Hopi.
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The Grand Canyon is a record of Earth’s history. The oldest rocks exposed in the canyon are nearly 2 billion years old. Layers of sandstone, limestone, and shale preserve ancient environments, including oceans, deserts, and forests. The canyon itself was mainly shaped by erosion from the Colorado
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Stop six on our road trip: Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, where the Ancestral Pueblo people built more than 600 cliff dwellings.
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