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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- Marvelous Cliff Palace, at Mesa Verde National Park: City of the Silent Dead in Southwestern Colorado
- Colored photo of Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Masonry Work North End Spruce Tree House Mesa Verde National Park, Mancos, Colo.
- Black and white image showing stabilization work at Spruce Tree House ruins of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Mesa Valley and Knife Edge Road-Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.
- Mesa Valley and Knife Edge Road in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Mesa Verde
- A color photograph of Spruce Tree House in Mesa Verde National park.
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- Mesa Verde
- Black and white photo of Mesa Verde; view of a ruin.
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- Mesa Verde
- Picture of Square Tower House at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Mesa Verde
- Picture of Spruce Tree House at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Mesa Verde
- A color photograph of Square Tower Ruins at Mesa Verde National Park.
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- Mesa Verde Nat'l Park, Colo.
- Black and white image of cliff-dwellings showing numerous rooms and kivas, at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Mesa Verde National Park
- Color overhead view of the Cliff Palace ruins at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Mesa Verde National Park
- Color image of tourists walking along cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Mesa Verde National Park
- Color view of tourists inside a cliff dwelling at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.