Around 1100 CE—a good 400 years before Spanish conquistadors would first glimpse the Grand Canyon—Ancestral Puebloans tended terrace farms along the banks of the Colorado River. In order to store their crops during the rainy season, when floods might destroy food stores, and to keep animals from eating the harvest, they created the Nankoweap Granaries high up in the canyon walls.
Ancient storage in the Grand Canyon
Today in History
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White Sands National Park turns 90
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Groundhog Day
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Breaking the fast for Eid
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Chapel of St. Michel on Lake Serre-Ponçon, Hautes-Alpes, France
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Juniper Springs, Florida
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Snow aglow in central Japan
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World Photography Day
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Oud-West, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Welcome to the Hoh
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National Find a Rainbow Day
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Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge
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In celebration of cats
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The Blue City of Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
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Abbey Gardens in Bury St Edmunds, England
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National Moth Week
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Berlin Festival of Lights
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Lake Peipus, Estonia
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All hail the king of shrubs
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King of the dinosaurs
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World Children s Day
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The roots of invention
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Autumn in the cypress swamp
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Hawai i Volcanoes National Park at 106
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A delta in the Venetian Lagoon, Italy
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Wedded Rocks, Japan
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Installation art turns heads
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Going head-to-head with winter
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Decorating for Diwali
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First day of National Park Week
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Bodie State Historic Park, California
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