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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- Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico
- A colored painting with the Great Kiva as the main focus. Another kiva can be seen behind it to the left in front of some wall ruins, along with grass, trees, and mountains in the background.
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- Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico
- Hand tinted linen textured photograph. View of the open court or plaza, one kiva or ceremonial chamber, and the east wall of the ruins with some trees and hills in the background.
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- Aztec Ruins North of Farmington, New Mexico.
- Faded image of Aztec Ruins North of Farmington, NM. Image shows a medium size structure with walls still standing but slowly crumbling apart and falling down. Appears to be within a large field surrounded by vegetation that looks to be sagebrush.
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- Aztec Ruins Trading Post
- Color image of the Aztec Ruinds Trading Post. Shows two sculpted figures outside of entrance flanking either side. One is wearing a feathered mask. On back it reads, " Indian pottery - Hand made jewelry - Navajo rugs - Curios of all kinds"
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- Aztec Ruins near Farmington, New Mexico
- Color image of the Aztec Ruins in Aztec, New Mexico. Image shows excavation in progress of the ruins with 3 people surrounding a smaller kiva in the center-right of the image. On back it reads, "The Aztec Ruins was one of the largest pre-Spanish villages in the Southwest. The biggest ruin here was once a building of 500 rooms, 3 stories high. Tree-ring dates indicate that this alrge pueblo was built between 1106 and 1121."
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- Aztec Ruins, Aztec, New Mexico
- Several kivas and two rows of storage rooms.
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- Aztec Ruins, Aztec, New Mexico
- Foreground view of a kiva.
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- Aztec Ruins, National Monument New Mexico
- On the left side of the photograph, the walls of the ruins can be seen. A group of people is in the center of the pohotograph, standing by a few of the brick-lined pits. The ruins stretch out beyond them and a mesa can be seen behind the ruins. (on back) The Aztec Ruins are one of the best preserved ruins and finest examples of he prehistoric way of life in this country. Delicacy, precision and strength are three of the main things that characterize the Stone Masonry at the Ruins. Mortared with adobe, the walls have held for centuries.
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- Aztec Ruins- Aztec, New Mexico
- Ariel picture of Aztec Ruins "Establised as a national Monument in 19233...the ruins originaly contained at least 500 rooms."
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- Balcony , The - Balcony House, Mesa Verde Nat'l Park, Colo.
- The Balcony - Balcony House, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.