Hovenweep National Monument protects six prehistoric, Puebloan-era villages spread over a twenty-mile expanse of mesa tops and canyons along the Utah-Colorado border.  This book explores a story of community and change, from the first hunter-gatherers to the Ancestral Puebloans.

Ian Thopmson lived most of his life in the Four Corners region of the western United States. He served as editor for two regional newspapers, as councilman and mayor of Durango, Colorado, and was a key figure in the establishment of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Cortez, Colorado.