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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- Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)
- Color image of cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)
- Color image of cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)
- Colored photo of the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings.
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- Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)
- Color photo of the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)
- Color image of a tour group inspecting cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)
- Black and white photograph of ruins in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)
- Color photo of Spruce Tree House at Mesa Verde National Park.
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- Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)
- Black and white image of ruins at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)
- Black and white photograph of two kivas in Mesa Verde National Park.
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- Mesa Verde National Park (Knife Edge Road, Colo.)
- Color image of the Knife Edge section of the roadway running through Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Mesa Verde National Park -- Cliff Palace
- Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. A group of visitors inspects a part of the largest and most famous of the Indian cliff dwellings, about 700 years old, in the rim-rock of the Mesa Verde.
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- Mesa Verde National Park entrance, southwestern Colorado
- Color image of the winding entrance road to Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.