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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- Sun Temple, Mesa Verde National Park
- What appears to be a hand drawn postcard of the Sun Temple at Mesa Verde National Park. It is a formation of low walls that are ruins and on the right side, which is about the center of the formation, there is a pair of trees.
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- Sun Temple, Mesa Verde National Park
- What appears to be a hand drawn postcard of the Sun Temple at Mesa Verde National Park. It is a formation of low walls that are ruins and on the right side, which is about the center of the formation, there is a pair of trees.
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- Sun Temple, Mesa Verde National Park
- This is a hand-colored image of the Sun Temple at Mesa Verde National Park. It is a mazes of curving stone walls, with trees growing in between. The sky is colored blue and the walls are tinted purple and orange.
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- Sun Temple, Mesa Verde National Park
- A color view of the Sun Temple ruin at the entrance to Mesa Verde National Park. The Sun Temple is a formation of low walls that appear to be in the formation of a B. In the center of the formation there is a pair of trees and there are four people that can be seen in this postcard.
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- Sun Temple, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
- A sepia postcard of the Sun Temple which is located at Mesa Verde National Park. It is a grouping of short walls and has a tree that is in the center of the "B" formation that they appear to be making.
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- Sun Temple, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
- Close view of the Sun Temple archaeological site, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Sun Temple, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
- This is a hand-colored image of the Sun Temple at Mesa Verde National Park. It is a mazes of curving stone walls, with trees growing in between. The sky is colored blue and the walls are tinted purple and orange.
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- Sun Temple, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
- A color postcard that appears as if it takes place at either early morning or early evening. The sun shining causes the partial wall to look as if it is a golden color. There is a small wooden ladder that is leaning against the wall in the center of the postcard and on the far left and the far right there is a tree. In the background some canyons can be seen and it appears as if there are some clouds in the sky.
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- Sun Temple, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
- Photograph of The Sun Temple, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. There is a group of people that are standing on the edge of the wall in the background of the picture and the majority of them have their backs facing the camera.
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- Sun Temple, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
- A color postcard of the Sun Temple at Mesa Verde National Park. It is a mazes of curving stone walls, with trees growing in between. The sky is colored blue and the walls are tinted purple and orange.
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- Sun Temple, Mesa Verde National Park, near Mancos, Colorado.
- Close-up view of Sun Temple ruins and conifers in the background. Colors include hues of green, red and yellow.
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- Sunset over Ute Mountain from Park Point (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Photo of some mountains.