High above the Verde Valley in Arizona sits the ancient pueblos at Tuzigoot. Tuzigoot (Apache for "crooked water") is the remnant of a Southern Sinagua village built between 1125 and 1400. It crowns the summit of a long ridge that rises 120 feet above the Verde Valley. The original pueblo was two stories high in places, with 77 ground -floor rooms. There were few exterior doors; entry was by way of ladders through openings in the roofs. The village began as a small cluster of rooms inhabited by about 50 persons for 100 yrs. In the 1200's the population doubled and then doubled again as refugee farmers, fleeing drought in outlying areas, settled here.The Southern Sinagua built their pueblos from locally available materials. The cobbled walls of Tuzigoot are massive but poorly balanced. Information copied from a National Park Service pamphlet. 09-08