an ancient dwelling of the Anasazi people and the third largest cliff dwelling in Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park. From Cortez, take US 160 east for eight miles to the park entrance ...

Vertiginous cliff dwellings were not the Anasazi’s only response to whatever ... “there were 50 to 75 large villages like SandCanyon in the Mesa Verde, Colorado, region—canyon-rim sites ...

One of the great mysteries of North American archaeology concerns the Anasazi ... at the mud brick "village" known as Cliff Palace in Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park. Signs of a hierarchical ...

Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern ... It is noted for the multi-storied cliff dwellings of the ancestral Puebloans (who were once called the Anasazi people) that date from the 6th to ...

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 ...

It is the largest cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde and the United States ... He’s also credited with selecting the term Anasazi (Navajo for ancient enemies) to describe the ancient people of ...

Virginia McClurg, a well-known writer, poet, and lecturer, took up the cause of protecting Mesa Verde's treasures. She formed the Colorado Cliff Dwellings Association, whose members were all women ...