At Mesa Verde, Spanish for "green table," multistoried dwellings fill the cliff-rock alcoves that rise ... the ancestral Puebloans, and modern Pueblo tribes in the Southwest consider themselves ...

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The Pueblo settled in the region about 1,400 years ago and built cliff dwellings using sandstone and wooden beams. Mesa Verde is home to the Cliff Palace. It’s the largest such dwelling in North ...

This World Heritage Site preserves more than 600 cliff dwellings typical of the Ancestral Puebloan ... This is a photo of me climbing the ladder up to Spruce Tree House at Mesa Verde N.P. in May 1978.

Further exploration led to the discovery of the largest concentration of cliff dwellings ... of the Pueblo Indians nearly 1,000 years earlier. At first it seemed that Mesa Verde might suffer ...

Some of the most well-known and well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan archaeological sites in existence are protected within Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado. The park contains over 5,000 ...