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 ...

Mesa Verde's cliff dwellings are a little crumbly in places ... it's easy to imagine the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo Indians who built these cliff houses 800 years ago. Ancestral Puebloans ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Guided tours can lead visitors on paths carved by Ancestral Puebloans into immaculately preserved cliff dwellings. Home to ancient ruins of a lost civilization of the Pueblo people, Mesa Verde ...