Hovenweep National Monument is a site located on the Cajon Mesa of the Great Sage Plain in southeastern Utah and southwestern Colorado.

Designated as a national monument in 1923, the site is known for its six groups of ancestral Puebloan villages. There is evidence that nomadic people hunted game and gathered food in this area as early as 8000 BC. The Puebloans were a non-nomadic farming people who lived here from 500 AD to 1300 AD.

Most of the towers and other structures on the site were built between 1200 AD and 1300 AD. The structures were built in a variety of shapes and sizes: some are circular while others are square.

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