Mesa Verde is Spanish for "green table," and the people who lived there are often called the "Anasazi," a Navajo ... began creating what are called "cliff dwellings," which are houses, and in ...

Vertiginous cliff dwellings were not the Anasazi’s only response to whatever ... including Christy Turner of Arizona State University, really pushed the argument. Turner’s 1999 book, Man ...

The Anasazi cliff dwellings are primarily located in the southwestern United States, particularly in the Four Corners region where the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet.

Keet Seel lies within Navajo National Monument, accessed via Highway 564 near Shonto, Arizona (86054). Visitors must complete ...

These cliff dwellings are remarkably well-preserved remnants of once thriving cultures of the Ancestral Puebloan peoples — formerly known as the Anasazi ... Monument in Arizona, and Gila ...

Turner II, an Arizona State University ... cannibalism came just as the Anasazi were embarking on a final building phase — the architecturally complex cliff dwellings. These dwellings, ranging ...

If the hike to the Betatakin cliff dwellings ended at a big blank wall ... the largest cliff dwelling in Arizona; and Inscription House, a smaller dwelling named for an inscription etched there ...

In a recent paper, an Arizona State University mathematician ... The forerunners of the modern Pueblo people, the Anasazi are known for their remarkable cliff dwellings and structures such as ...