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- Title: Step House Ruin
- Description: Step House, on Wetherill Mesa, was built in approximately 620 AD and then after several hundred years of abandonment, was reoccupied from 1226 to the early 1300s. Between 30 and 40 people lived there in the later period. During the first period, during the Basketmaker era, inhabitants lived in pithouses below ground level. Later, pueblo rooms, up to two stories high, were built to fit beside, between, under and around the sandstone boulders and natural obstacles of the alcove. In the late 1800s, the Wetherill family of Mancos, Colorado; Swedish scientist Gustaf Nordenskiöld; and others explored and dug in the Step House alcove. In 1926, Jesse Nusbaum, Mesa Verde National Park’s superintendent and first park archeologist, re-excavated the site.
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- Added: Dec 19, 2017
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