Besh Ba Gowah Archaeological Park and Museum

The City of Globe's Besh Ba Gowah Archaeological Park and Museum features a partially reconstructed prehistoric Salado culture pueblo exhibit which was occupied from AD 1225 to AD 1400. The interpretive pueblo exhibit offers visitors an understanding of the lifestyle of the Salado people of the prehistoric Southwest. The adjacent Museum displays nearly 600 artifacts that were excavated at the pueblo site, which represent one of the largest single-site Southwestern archaeological collections in existence.

Exhibits

The Besh Ba Gowah pueblo ruins exhibit includes a large number of low rock walls representing the original rooms of the pueblo and three standing structures that are reconstructions of some parts of the pueblo as they might have appeared at the time of occupation. The museum exhibits the pottery, stone tools, jewelry and textiles crafted and traded by the Salado culture that inhabited the pueblo site.

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