and modern Pueblo tribes in the Southwest consider themselves descendants of these ancestral people. Some 40 pueblos and cliff dwellings are visible from park roads and overlooks; some of these ...

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 ...

A great concentration of ancestral Pueblo Indian dwellings ... There are also imposing cliff dwellings, built of stone and comprising more than 100 rooms.

Sand Canyon Pueblo looks nothing like Utah’s wildly inaccessible cliff dwellings. But there was a defense strategy built into the architecture nevertheless. “In the late 13th century,” says ...

one of the best-preserved Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde National Park. About 10 feet below the rim, he peered into a hole with a bolt inside, evidence of a 1960s-era attempt to ...

At Bears Ears National Monument, a crew of young men from the Pueblo of Zuni is caring for the cliff dwellings their ancestors built 800 years ago. “Uh-oh, I shouldn’t have looked down,” said Darian ...

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 ...

Established by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, Mesa Verde was the first national park created to preserve the works of man. Mesa Verde National Park also became a UNESCO Wor ...

Further exploration led to the discovery of the largest concentration of cliff dwellings ever found, built by the ancestors of the Pueblo Indians nearly 1,000 years earlier. At first it seemed ...