First Granary

The Fremont Indians grew corn, beans, and squash to supplement their diet. In addition, they often built storage facilities to house some of the fruits of their labors, likely so that they would have more food during the winter months. These granaries are usually found today high above ground, and often on cliff sides seemingly inaccessible to human beings. While the reasons for this are unclear, it has been suggested that it was done for protection from animal or perhaps even human predators. Here is one example as seen from the canyon trail and below is a telescopic image of the same granary. Some of these facilites still contain corn that is a thousand years old. Radiocarbon dating has shown that the entire area was vacated by the builders about 1175 a.d.