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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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- The Cliff Palace is one of the largest, the best known and one of the best preserved of the many pre-historic ruins in the park." Printed in Italy by KINA ITALIA Milan, Italy.
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Hewn from the sheer Canyon Cliffs stand the remains of Cliff Dwellings, inhabited by a prehistoric people that vanished over a thousand years ago. Fine new highways lead to these ruins, perhaps the strangest of the state's many wonders."
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- A view of some of the largest cliff dwelling which, in 1270 A.D., housed some 500 persons."
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Picture of Cliff Palace Ruin in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- On front, "Hello...We're at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, overlooking the Four Corner Country, seeing fascinating Stone Age Culture, climbing like a goat among the ruins of the worlds largest known cliff dwellings built by the Indians about 2000..."
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- A view of the south section of one of many cliff cities.
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Colored image of two people climbing a ladder
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Cliff Palace. Mesa Verde National Park near Cortez, Colorado.
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- This is the largest of the many prehistoric ruins found in Uncle Sam's only archaeological park. The structure is 300 feet long and contained approximately 200 rooms, including 23 kivas, or underground ceremonial chambers. It occupies a great cave..."
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Colored print of ancient ruins
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- Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Colored grainy image of cliff dwellings