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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Museum, Mesa Verde Park, Colo.
Museum, Mesa Verde Park. A black and white real photo.
Natural Bridge and Spring House looking East, Long Canon, Mesa Verde National Park
Natural Bridge and Spring House, looking east, Long Canon, Mesa Verde National Park
Navajo Canon in Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.
Navajo Canon in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
Navajo Canyon (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
Colored print of a Paul Coze painting.
Navajo Canyon, Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)
Sepia tinted photo of Navajo Canyon in Mesa Verde National Park.
Navajo Indian Woman Weaving Blankets Near Aztec, New Mexico.
Black and white picture of a Navajo Indian woman weaving a blanket.
Navajo Yeibichi dancers (from a painting by Paul Coze)
Colored print of a Paul Coze painting depicting four dancers around a campfire.
New Fire House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
Black and white photo of New Fire House in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
New Fire House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
Photograph of the New Fire House in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.

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