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Springs are rare in the desert. Beyond the cowboy camp, soot-blackened ceilings, hand prints, painted figures and grinding depressions on boulders indicate that earlier people were also attracted to this precious water source. Ancestral Puebloan Indians occupied these canyons six centuries before the cattlemen arrived, from approximately 700 to 1,000 years ago.

The ancestral Puebloans did not live continuously in what is now Canyonlands National Park. They left the canyons seasonally or during periods of drought and returned when conditions were more favorable for growing their crops of corn and beans. When they were here, they lived in alcoves like Cave Spring. They left the area and moved on when, be cause of prolonged drought, the water table dropped.


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