Montezuma Valley - The Land of the Ancestral Puebloan
Montezuma Valley
(below you) and Mesa
Verde (where you now
stand) were once a part
of the Ancestral Puebloan
homeland. Between A.D.
800 and A.D. 1280.
hundreds of villages and
farming on the mesas,
plateaus, and canyons
that form this landscape.
Archeologists estimate
that as many as 35,000
Ancestral Puebloans lived
in this region during the
1200s. At the start of the
21st century, Montezuma
Valley had a population
of about 24,000 people.
