A ‘relaxed” horseshoe shaped ‘apartment’ building that housed hundreds, 5 stories high, superbly built of stone with many walls still standing, straight and true, is quite a testament to the ancient builders...the shape oriented the inside curve to the south, passive solar...
Stone/cement work that is still perfect after hundreds of years
These walls were once plastered and painted
This was the ‘county seat’, as it were, with a system of wide, concrete (a better form than ours today of roads spread out across the land to outlying villages.
It is place like Cahokia and Chaco Canyon that were, for the better part of the last 400 years, ignored. Inconvenient evidence of thriving civilizations that didn't fit within the “nothing but roaming savages”, the rationale for Manifest Destiny”?