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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- Square Tower House, Mesa Verde National Park, near Mancos, Colorado.
- A postcard of the Square Tower Ruins that can be found at Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado. It is a set of ruins that used to be cliff dwellings that sit up against the bottom of a cliff with a slight overhang.
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- Square Tower Ruin, Mesa Verde National Park
- Square Tower Ruin, Mesa Verde National Park. Square Tower Ruin is one of Mesa Verde's moderate sized cliff dwellings. Here it is seen from a view point on the east rim of Navajo Canyon.
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- Square Tower Ruin, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
- A postcard of the Square Tower Ruins that can be found at Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado. It is a set of ruins that used to be cliff dwellings that sit up against the bottom of a cliff with a slight overhang.
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- Square Tower Ruin, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
- A postcard of the Square Tower Ruins that can be found at Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado. It is a set of ruins that used to be cliff dwellings that sit up against the bottom of a cliff with a slight overhang.
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- Square Tower, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
- This overhead photo focuses on Square Tower House ruins, alcove, and shrubs (foreground) near the ruins.
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- Step House, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
- Step House, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. It is the ruins of a cliff dwelling.
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- Sun Temple
- Side view of Sun Temple ruins above an alcove. The alcove has ladders that lead to cliff shelves with ruin walls.
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- Sun Temple
- Image of the Sun Temple ruins at Mesa Verde National Park. Consists of a maze of brick walls.
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- Sun Temple (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Black and white photograph of the Sun Temple at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Sun Temple (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Colored photo of the Sun Temple inside Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Sun Temple (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Photograph of the Sun Temple inside Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.