A cool, delicious verde sauce with a small kick. Goes well with eggs, tacos, pizza and even adds extra umami to ramen. Made in Southern California.
Some information about Mesa Verde National Park:
Mesa Verde National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is located in Montezuma County, Colorado, and is the only World Heritage Site in the state. The park is renowned for protecting some of the best-preserved Ancestral Puebloan sites in the United States.
Established in 1906 by Congress and President Theodore Roosevelt, Mesa Verde covers 52,485 acres (212 km²) in the Four Corners region of the American Southwest. It is home to over 5,000 archaeological sites, including 600 cliff dwellings, making it the largest archaeological preserve in the United States. The park is named "Mesa Verde," which translates from Spanish as "green table" or "green table mountain," and is particularly famous for iconic cliff dwellings like Cliff Palace, one of the largest in North America.
Mesa Verde has a long history of human occupation, beginning around 7500 BC when nomadic Paleo-Indians, known as the Foothills Mountain Complex, seasonally inhabited the area. The diverse projectile points found here suggest cultural exchanges with neighboring regions, including the Great Basin, the San Juan Basin, and the Rio Grande Valley. By 1000 BC, the Archaic people established semi-permanent rock shelters in the region, and by around 1 AD, the Basketmaker culture emerged from these earlier inhabitants. By 750 AD, the Ancestral Puebloans, descendants of the Basketmakers, had developed their distinct culture.
The Puebloans thrived by combining hunting, gathering, and farming, cultivating crops such as corn, beans, and squash—the "Three Sisters." They began constructing the first pueblos on the mesa around 650 AD, and by the late 12th century, they began building the impressive cliff dwellings that have made the park famous. However, by 1285, a series of severe droughts and social upheaval led to the abandonment of the cliff dwellings. The Puebloans migrated south to regions in present-day Arizona and New Mexico, including the Rio Chama, the Albuquerque Basin, the Pajarito Plateau, and the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.