Members of the Hopi and Zuni tribes are working alongside archaeologists within the Bears Ears National Monument to preserve masonry structures built by their ancestors hundreds of years ago. Uniquely, they are using methods and materials that reflect traditional perspectives about these places.
The cliff-dwelling known as River House is located along the San Juan River, just downstream from Bluff, Utah. It was built and occupied for over two centuries by ancestors of the Hopi, Zuni and other Pueblo tribes, who constructed the village out of sandstone, soil mortar, and wooden beams...