BESH BA GOWAH | Globe, Arizona | Exploring the Remains of an Old Salado Indian Village

One of the best-kept secrets in Arizona is Besh-Ba-Gowah in Globe, AZ. This archaeological park has some of the best-preserved & reconstructed Indian ruins one can explore. Today we adventure to this old village & wander where the Salado culture lived.

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There's no shortage of Indian ruins to explore in Arizona as it has been a cultural melting pot across the centuries. In this video, we visit Besh Ba Gowah Archeological Park, an amazing site where visitors can walk among the reconstructed walls of an Indian village.

It is located near the town of Globe, Arizona. Finding the park can be a bit tricky as it is located around a mostly residential area. Directions have been linked below.

Besh Ba Gowah was a 200 room village inhabited by the Salado culture somewhere between 1225 and 1400 AD. Rooms in the village had many purposes - living, storage, cooking, communal, and even ceremonial. Walls were made of rounded stones and mortared with mud. At the time the walls would have been smoothed over with adobe giving a finished look. Today the reconstruction does not include the finished adobe.

In the center of the village was a plaza. It is said that up to 150 people were buried here essentially making it the village's cemetery. The entrance into the village was through a long, dark-covered hallway. While not covered now, this long hallway can be seen upon initially entering the remains.

The Salado people were hunters and gatherers. The Tonto Basin and nearby Pinal Creek provided much of what the Salado needed for thriving in the area. Corn, squash, pumpkin, and beans were farmed for a food source.

Textiles and pottery were prolific here. Geometric designs on the pottery were common. In addition, the Salado were part of a major trade route. Shells from the Pacific have been found on-site as well as copper bells from Mexico. Many excavated examples of archeological finds can be seen in the park's museum.

As with Tonto National Monument, no one really knows why the Salado abandoned the area. It is thought that drought or conflict with neighboring cultures may have taken part.

The name Besh Ba Gowah was given to the location much later by the Apache. It translates to "place of metal" or "metal camp", a reference to the mining of precious metals that was taking place in the late 1800s.


VIDEO FILMED: 02/28/2020

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