Goodman Point.

Goodman Point is part of Hovenweep National Monument.  WPI studied the water sources for the settlement site in 2010 under the archaeological permit carried by the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center.  The Goodman Point area supported a sprawling population beginning during the early Pueblo II period.  Around A.D. 1260, resources were scarcer and violence was on the rise.  The Goodman Point Pueblo was a walled settlement where Pueblo III people collected for security; it was home to 500 to 800 people from A.D. 1260 to 1280. 

Analyses of the spring yield and other water supply characteristics indicated that the Pueblo III people who lived at Goodman Point Pueblo had an adequate water supply.  Supplementary water sources, half-a-mile distant Goodman Lake and Mona Spring, were also investigated.   

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