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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- Aztec Ruins National Monument
- The Great Kiva was built in the early 1100s and may have provided a place for communitywide ceremonies and gatherings. Phtographer-George H.H. Huey.
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- Aztec Ruins National Monument
- The striking masonry pueblos reflect the 11th century influence from nearby Chaco Canyon. Aztec was abandoned by 1300.
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- Aztec Ruins National Monument (Aztec, N.M.)
- Colored photograph of the Aztec Ruins.
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- Aztec Ruins National Monument (Aztec, N.M.)
- One of the best preserved Indian ruins in the country, Aztec was abandoned by 1300 A.D."
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- Aztec Ruins National Monument (Aztec, N.M.)
- Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico.
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- Aztec Ruins National Monument (Aztec, N.M.)
- Aztec Ruins National Monument near Aztec, New Mexico is visited by thousands of people annually who come to examine the work of a stone-age Indian civilization."
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- Aztec Ruins National Monument (Aztec, N.M.)
- Aztec Ruins, embodying the architecture and building techniques of over 1000 years ago, preserves the ruins of the largest pre-Spanish villages of the southwest."
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- Aztec Ruins National Monument (Aztec, N.M.)
- Showing the three Kivas and the northwest corner of the ruins. The first written record of these Ruins was made in 1859, although extensive and scientific excavations were not made until 1916 to 1921 by the American Museum of Natural History."
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- Aztec Ruins National Monument (Aztec, N.M.)
- The Aztec Ruins are one of the best preserved Indian ruins in the country. Aztec was abandoned by 1300 A.D."
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- Aztec Ruins National Monument (Aztec, N.M.)
- Exterior view of the reconstructed Great Kiva at Aztec Ruins."
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- Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec New Mexico
- Scenes of the Aztec Ruins which are one of the best preserved Indian ruins in the country. Aztec was abandoned by 1300 A.D.
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- Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec, New Mexico
- Aerial view of West Ruin and Hubbard Mound at Aztec Ruins National Monument.