The Monarch Cave Ruin, a 1000-year old Ancestral Puebloan Native American Indian ruin in a protective alcove in a canyon in the Shash Jaa Unit of the

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The Monarch Cave Ruin, a 1000-year old Ancestral Puebloan Native American Indian ruin in a protective alcove in a canyon in the Shash Jaa Unit of the Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah.

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Photo credit: © Jon G. Fuller/VWPics / Alamy / Afripics
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