Montezuma Castle circa 1887
Near Camp Verde, Arizona
Castle in ruins
Never Montezuma’s home
The white man’s mistake
Thinking that he knew it all
Only to find he was wrong
~
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Montezuma Castle is located in the Verde Valley of central Arizona, along a tributary of the Verde River called Beaver Creek. The Verde Valley provides a natural corridor and trade route between the southern desert and the northern plateau, and has been inhabited at different times by several different cultures.
There is evidence of Paleo-Indian hunter-gatherers in some parts of Arizona that date as far back as ten thousand years. In the Verde Valley, there is direct archeological evidence of human habitation dating back only about two thousand years, although it is almost certain that people were there long before that.
From about 600 to 1100 AD the region was occupied by a people with ties to the Hohokam, a major culture centered around present-day Phoenix. The remains of pithouses—one-room structures built of rock, mud, poles and sticks characteristic of the Hohokam culture—can still be found in the area. One such pithouse is on display at Montezuma Well, five miles to the northeast of Montezuma Castle along Beaver Creek… More
Dom DiFrancesco 
excellent and thank you for the footnote, most interesting.
Thank you and it was my pleasure. :)
Wow amazing tanka and share.
Thank you very much. These ruins are about an hour north of where I live, I think that they are quite the engineering marvel. :)
We do tend to make mistakes with history. I remember there being a dinosaur that had the wrong head in a museum. Also, I think the guy looking for the city of Troy actually bulldozed through part of it to get to where he believed it was. Been years since I took the archaeology classes in college.
I guess mistakes are just the nature of the beast. Not having first hand knowledge certainly leaves room for error.
Very true. Best to learn from those mistakes and toss pride aside to say ‘oops’.
Yes sir, but unfortunately so many let pride get in the way. There is no weakness in admitting mistakes, we are only human.
Mistaken time after time!
These desert ruins are remarkable.
Thanks Dom
They sure are, I always find these fascinating. :)