Tuzigoot was probably around when the Ancestral Puebloans lived up in the cliff dwellings in Colorado, much of the construction is the same. These people lived on top of the ground, though, but, try to picture the whole settlement with roofs and ladders going up the outside walls and ladders going down through a hole in the roof. They utilized both the insides of their houses and the roofs, too. This looked to be a thriving settlement.