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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- Spruce Tree Ruin-Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
- Slight overhead view of Spruce Tree Ruin, rock shelter, and conifers on top of cliff and in foreground. Photo includes visitors which gives scale to the size of the ruins. Description on back states: One of the better preserved of the large cliff dwellings, this ruin is a five-minute walk from the Mesa Verde Museum.
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- Spruce Tree Ruin-Mesa Verde Ntl. Park
- Black and white postcard with view of kiva and partial tower. There is a person standing in the back of the ruins.
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- Square Tower House
- A picture of ruins located by a cliff at Mesa Verde National Park.
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- Square Tower House
- A black and white photo of the Square Tower House in the Mesa Verde National Park Ruins. It was taken in the distance and is surrounded by trees, shrub, and brush along with other ruins off to the right.
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- Square Tower House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Square Tower House - Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Square Tower House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- A color picture of Square Tower House in Mesa Verde National Park. It is located underneath a cliff that looks like it has moss of some kind on it and trees in the background.
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- Square Tower House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Square Tower House in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Square Tower House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Colored print of Square Tower House in Mesa Verde National Park. Picture includes trees, shrub and yucca plants in the front.
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- Square Tower House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Square Tower House in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Square Tower House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Square Tower House in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. Mesa Verde National Park (near Mancos, Colorado).
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- Square Tower House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Photograph of Square Tower at Mesa Verde National Park. The ruins are located underneath a cliff with trees surrounding.