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 Day of the Worlds Indigenous Peoples
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National Take the Stairs Day
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Falling for Rioja
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A unique elephant encounter in Nantes
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I see one!
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Wild garlic in bloom at Hainich National Park, Germany
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Midsummer in Sweden
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International Lighthouse Weekend
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White Sands National Park turns 90
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Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia, Chile
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A fortress in the sky
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Get on your bike and ride
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50 years of the Endangered Species Act
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Up in the Highlands
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The view will stop you in your tracks
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Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
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Party like it’s 5779
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International Day of Mangrove Conservation
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International Museum Day
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Sharp-dressed bug
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Nubble Island’s only industry
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Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve in Layton, Utah
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What are we looking at?
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Longer days mean warmer sand
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Chocolate Hills
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Seville, Spain
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North Cascades National Park at 50
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Big Bend National Park anniversary
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Kochia, Hitachi, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan
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Happy Halloween!
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