Book: Pueblo de los Muertos, The Forgotten City (Ben Furlong)

Description

Dr. Ben Furlong presents a fascinating look at a forgotten local archeological site in Tempe: Los Muertos. In the late 1880s, the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition set out to uncover the past and reveal important information about the area’s earliest inhabitants. Much of their time was spent among the ruins of 35 adobe structures, the largest being 200 feet wide and 320 feet long located in South Tempe. The Hemenway Expedition dubbed the community Pueblo de Los Muertos, the town of the dead. Los Muertos was soon forgotten. Some 800 years later, new farmers moved in and discovered the gift of this land.