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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- Classic Pueblo
- Colored print of a Paul Coze painting.
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- Cliff Canon, Mesa Verde National Park
- Cliff Canon, Mesa Verde National Park
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- Cliff Dwellers Pottery, Mesa Verde Ruins, Colo.
- Photograph of a collection of pottery and skulls
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- Cliff Dwelling in Mancos Canon
- This shows a cliff dwelling, Sphinx, in Mancos Canyon at Mesa Verde National Park. The card is largely white with a teal border, the image is situated in the upper right hand corner.
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- Cliff Dwellings (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Black and white photograph of cliff dwellings viewed from across a canyon in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Cliff House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Colored photo of old buildings under a cliff
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- Cliff House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- Photograph of Mesa Verde's dwellings with shrubbery in the foreground.
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- Cliff House Ruins in Mancos Canon, Colo.
- Cliff House Ruins in Mancos Canon, Colorado, Pictured are the Balcony House, Cliff Palace, Lookout Ruin, and a mummy.
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- Cliff Palace
- Image of the Cliff Palace ruins at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Cliff Palace
- Grainy image of ruins taken from a distance
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- Cliff Palace
- Black and white photo of Cliff Palace cliff dwellings