Volume 3: Mesa Verde/ Aztec Ruins
According to the U.S. National Park Service, Mesa Verde National Park features 5,000 known archeological sites, including 600 spectacular cliff dwellings. The name is Spanish for “Green Table,” and the area was inhabited by the Ancestral Pueblo people from AD 600 to 1300, over 700 years. (source) Mesa Verde, as well as nearby Aztec Ruins National Monument located in Aztec, New Mexico, are an important link to the Native American past of the region and provide significant economic stimulus, with well over half a million people visiting each year. (source)
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- Ancient Dwellings in Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)
- Black and white image picturing ancient cliff dwellings built on and below a rock wall in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Ancient Dwellings, Aztec Ruins National Monument
- A picture inside the Aztec Ruins built in "1100-1300 AD...by Chacoan people."
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- Autumn at Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Color photograph looking across a canyon at Cliff Palace ruins of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, with fall colors highlighting the surrounding vegetation.
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- Aztec National Monument
- View of a tour of the ruins at Aztec National Monument. Located near the town of Aztec New Mexico. Pueblo here contained approximately 500 rooms and probably began construction around 1100 A.D.
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- Aztec Ruins
- Colored photograph of the Aztec Ruins on psotcard.
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- Aztec Ruins (Aztec, N.M.)
- Established as a national monument in 1923, the ruins originally contained at least 500 rooms, housing about 800 Indians. The Pueblo was originally constructed in the early 100's by people of the Chaco Culture, who abandoned it before..."
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- Aztec Ruins (Aztec, N.M.)
- Postmarked Aztec, NM. 3/15/1917.
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- Aztec Ruins (Aztec, N.M.)
- Postmarked Aztec, New Mexico, 6/17/1938.
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- Aztec Ruins (Aztec, N.M.)
- Aztec Ruins. Postage in U.S., Canada and Mexico was one cent.
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- Aztec Ruins - Mullarky Photo -
- In the center of the photo is a pit lined with adobe brick. Behind it, you can see the walls of the Aztec Ruins.
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- Aztec Ruins Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico
- A man and a woman gaze into one of the Aztec adobe-lined pits as a tour guide gestures towards it. Behind them are more pits and a few dilapidated walls, also made of adobe brick. Several green trees can be seen behind the ruins, contrasting with the tan brick. On the back: The Aztec Ruins are one of the best preserved ruins and finest examples of the pre-historic way of life in this country. Delicacy, precision and strength are three of the main things that characterize the Stone Masonry of the Ruins. Mortared with adobe, the walls have held for centuries.
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- Aztec Ruins National Monument
- The West Pueblo was originally constructed between A.D. 1111 and A.D. 1115 by people affiliated with the Chaco Canyon Anasazi.