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Square Tower on the canyon rim at Hovenweep

Fig. 1Square Tower on the canyon rim at Hovenweep

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Landform

Ancestral Puebloan masonry on a Utah canyon rim — not Canyons of the Ancients in Colorado.

Field note

Square Tower stands on a ledge in the canyon. Other rooms sit on the rim. Walk the path and leave the masonry. This is Hovenweep in Utah, not the Colorado monument to the east.

A private leaf

Prints from Hovenweep Square Tower


Instant paper, this copy only. Write on the white — a line the walk still owes you.

The prints

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