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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- Ruins - Mesa Verde, Colo.
- Three park rangers in uniform sit outside some Mesa Verde ruins
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- Ruins at Aztec Ruins National Monument (N.M.)
- Ruins at Aztec National Monument, New Mexico.
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- Ruins of Ancient Cliff Dwellers Palaces, Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.
- Ruins of Ancient Cliff Dwellers' Palaces, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. A color-enhanced photo.
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- Ruins of the Ancient Cliff Dwellers, Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.
- A sepia postcards that has the ruins of Mesa Verde with some trees in the background.
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- Ruins of the Cliff Dwellers
- A group of people with cliff dwelling background.
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- S. P. Thomas House, Mesa Verde Ruins, Colorado
- Picture of a man sitting in the pueblo ruins of Mesa Verde National Park.
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- Section of Balcony House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- A view of a group of six people standing by a section of the balcony house in Mesa Verde National Park.
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- Section of Cliff Palace (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Photograph of a section of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Shiprock (N.M.)
- A black and white photograph of Shiprock, New Mexico. There is brush covering the ground with some low mountains in the background with some slight cloud covering.
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- Shiprock (N.M.)
- A photograph of Shiprock, New Mexico.