The best part of visiting Mesa Verde National Park is exploring and touring the cliff dwellings throughout the park. Mesa Verde is home to 600 cliff dwellings across the 81.25 mi² of the park. That’s ...

At Mesa Verde, Spanish for "green table," multistoried ... They are now more accurately called the ancestral Puebloans, and modern Pueblo tribes in the Southwest consider themselves descendants ...

built by the ancestors of the Pueblo Indians nearly 1,000 years earlier. At first it seemed that Mesa Verde might suffer the same fate as smaller ancient sites discovered in the Four Corners area ...

Mesa Verde's cliff dwellings are a little crumbly ... it's easy to imagine the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo Indians who built these cliff houses 800 years ago. Ancestral Puebloans grew squash ...

A great concentration of ancestral Pueblo Indian dwellings, built from the 6th to the 12th century, can be found on the Mesa Verde plateau in south-west Colorado at an altitude of more than 2,600 m.

This summer, through a collaboration between the CU Museum of Natural History and Mesa Verde National Park, visitors to the park can engage with hands-on education activities that will highlight the ...

Go back in time at Mesa Verde National Park. The park protects nearly 5,000 archaeological sites, preserving the heritage of the ancestral Pueblo people. The Pueblo settled in the region about ...