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Petrified Forest National ParkPainted Desert Inn in the 1950s, NPS Photo
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Petrified Forest National Park
Mary C. Nasser
 
photo by Thomas Wiewandt, COPYRIGHTED
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Agate House pueblo made with petrified wood chunks  

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Petrified wood was so abundant when the ancestral Puebloan people were living in the area that they used it not only for stone tools but also as building material, such as the "brick" used in Agate House at Petrified Forest National Park.

Last Updated: October 03, 2007 at 18:50 EST