Archaeologists dig to discover clues about ancient civilizations.
The Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, with the help of students like you, investigated Castle Rock Pueblo from 1990 through 1994. This picturesque pueblo had first caught our attention because of its prominent location on the landscape. Later, when we began to look at the site more closely, we discovered the remains of rooms, kivas , and towers around the base of the large sandstone butte. We also found structures on top of the butte, as well as some ancient pictures pecked into the rock face. From the pieces of pottery found on the ground, we could tell that the ancestral Puebloans had probably built and lived at Castle Rock in the A.D. 1200s.