Around 1100 CE—a good 400 years before Spanish conquistadors would first glimpse the Grand Canyon—Ancestral Puebloans tended terrace farms along the banks of the Colorado River. In order to store their crops during the rainy season, when floods might destroy food stores, and to keep animals from eating the harvest, they created the Nankoweap Granaries high up in the canyon walls.
Ancient storage in the Grand Canyon
Today in History
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International Archaeology Day
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Big Bend National Park anniversary
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Celebrating migrations
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National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
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Happy New Year!
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Angkor, Cambodia
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Spring equinox
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A crush in Lavaux
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New Year s Eve
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National Park Week begins
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In the Highlands for Saint Andrew s Day
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Canada s $20 view
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Entoloma hochstetteri mushroom at Lake Mahinapua, New Zealand
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There’s a dog in there somewhere
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Death Valley National Park, California
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Earthrise on Moon Day
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Keep your hands inside the ride at all times…
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Modica, Sicily, Italy
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Borovets ski resort in Bulgaria
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Lucian Blaga National Theater, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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International Day for Monuments and Sites
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Longer days mean warmer sand
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Rocky mountain pi
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Sundance Film Festival
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Darwin Day
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25th anniversary of September 11, 2001
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It s a ruff life
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
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Lavender fields on the Valensole Plateau in Provence, France
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Christmas star lanterns, Germany
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