Plowed Fields and Ruins
Couple of thoughts on those strange unplowed areas in Southwestern fields
Rubble pile in plowed field. In Southwestern Colorado, a lot of these will be archaeological sites.
Living in the Four Corners, we’re surrounded by archaeology. Sometimes it seems as though the whole place is an archaeological site.
Case in point: you’re driving in Southwestern Colorado, pass by plowed fields, and you notice an unplowed island in the middle of the field.
There’s a reasonable chance that you’re looking at a ruin site.
Gotta tell you, this blew my mind. Can you imagine how many people must have lived here back then? I’m not sure that I can.
I’ve read that there were more people living in this area a thousand years ago than there are now.
Rubble pile in plowed field. In Southwestern Colorado, many of these will be archaeological sites.