The season in this scene is autumn, the busiest time of the year for the villagers. The harvest is underway. The men are probably still gleaning the fields, while others spread crops on a roof top to dry. These are the stores that will see them through the long winter and even the next year or two if there is drought. Women are probably making pottery and grinding corn.
Children scamper about and old men sit in the sun and tell stories.
The scene is conjectural but entirely plausible. We probably will never know a great deal more about these people. Painting Is for NPS Use Only. About 1400 years ago, long before any European exploration of the New World, a group of people living in the Four Corners region chose Mesa Verde for their home. For over 700 years their descendants lived and flourished here, eventually building elaborate stone cities in the sheltered recesses of the canyon walls.