{"id":112847,"date":"2015-04-29T17:08:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T23:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/canyons-of-the-ancients-gets-exposure\/"},"modified":"2015-04-29T17:08:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T23:08:35","slug":"canyons-of-the-ancients-gets-exposure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/canyons-of-the-ancients-gets-exposure\/","title":{"rendered":"Canyons of the Ancients gets exposure"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Painted Hand Pueblo ruins at Canyons of the Ancients National Monument northwest of Cortez are just one of the highlights at Canyons of the Ancients mentioned in a Colorado Life magazine article in the March\/April edition.<\/span>Courtesy of Dan Leeth\/Colorado Life magazine<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Plugged with the tease \u201cUncover Mysterious Ruins\u201d on the issue\u2019s cover, the story takes a look at the Anasazi Heritage Center and Hovenweep National Monument, as well. The subheadline \u2013 \u201cUp to 40,000 Ancestral Puebloans inhabited this valley, then suddenly vanished\u201d \u2013 takes dramatic license, as it\u2019s not as though they were abducted by aliens but instead migrated south over a period of several years after a severe drought and increasing conflict in the region.<\/p>\n

But author Dan Leeth makes much of the density of archaeological ruins \u2013 the most dense in the country and among the most dense in the world \u2013 and the collection at the heritage center. He also visited and photographed some of the more remote ruins for visitors who aren\u2019t so adventurous.<\/p>\n

Visit www.coloradolifemagazine.com to learn more.<\/p>\n

Herald Staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Painted Hand Pueblo ruins at Canyons of the Ancients National Monument northwest of Cortez are just one of the highlights at Canyons of the Ancients mentioned in a Colorado Life magazine article in the March\/April edition.Courtesy of Dan Leeth\/Colorado Life magazine Plugged with the tease \u201cUncover Mysterious Ruins\u201d on the issue\u2019s cover, the story takes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6363],"tags":[188,13,3961,173,4502],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-112847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ds-news","tag-dolores-star","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-hovenweep-national-monument","tag-mesa-verde-national-park","tag-talk-about-town"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112847"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=112847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}