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- Title: Defiance House Kiva
- Description: Exploring the area before Lake Powell was created, University of Utah archeologists followed a dangerous hand-and-toe-hold trail in 1959. Venturing up Forgotten Canyon, seeking ancient ancestral sites prior to the creation of the dam, scientists were delighted to find an Anasazi site where "most of the roofs were still in place". They named the site "Defiance House" for the large pictograph of three warriors brandishing clubs and shields. Were the three defiant warriors painted on the cliff wall to warn potential enemies? Defiance House was occupied from 1250 to 1285 AD. The discovery scientists were left with a perplexing question in 1959. What could have contributed to the quick exit of the inhabitants of the alcove site, which left two bowls of food sitting in the base of the kiva. The remnants of both, still resting in the midden ruin, has never been explained.
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- Added: Dec 29, 2017
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