<p>I am reading a book that argues that the Ancestral Puebloans settled along the rincons, or nooks, along the canyon walls, because that was where water was reliable. I can't understand the argument, as I think the canyon floor would be the place where water from every rincon flowed, and therefore would be far more reliable than getting water from just one nook along the canyon wall. Is there some validity to the author's argument?</p>

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I read that the cliff dwellings were a late and temporary phenomenon, so perhaps it isn't that the rincon springs were the *best* source of water, just the only places so defensible that had *any* source of water. I think it counts as a historical or archaeological question, not an earth science question. 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/riddles-of-the-anasazi-85274508/
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Why would a rincon provide more reliable water?
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# Why would a rincon provide more reliable water?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-07-03)

I am reading a book that argues that the Ancestral Puebloans settled along the rincons, or nooks, along the canyon walls, because that was where water was reliable. I can't understand the argument, as I think the canyon floor would be the place where water from every rincon flowed, and therefore would be far more reliable than getting water from just one nook along the canyon wall. Is there some validity to the author's argument?

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> **username_1**: I read that the cliff dwellings were a late and temporary phenomenon, so perhaps it isn't that the rincon springs were the *best* source of water, just the only places so defensible that had *any* source of water. I think it counts as a historical or archaeological question, not an earth science question.   https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/riddles-of-the-anasazi-85274508/  

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