Beginning about A.D. 750, the ancestral Puebloans grouped their mesa-top dwellings ... Spruce Tree House, an ancient dwelling of the Anasazi people and the third largest cliff dwelling in ...

These ancient cliff dwellings were once the home of the Sinagua people of the Ancestral Puebloans and are now among the largest cave dwellings in the area. The pictographs that cover the walls of ...

In 1276 a 23-year drought began. The Ancestral Puebloans abandoned the site by 1300. Cowboys found the cliff dwellings in the 1880s and subsequent explorers plundered them—until much of the mesa ...

I couldn’t help but envision the Ancestral Pueblo people walking along a similar path. I’d seen pictures of cliff dwellings before, but I was still amazed that these ancient living spaces have ...

The Pueblo settled in the region about 1,400 years ago and built cliff dwellings using sandstone and wooden beams. Mesa Verde is home to the Cliff Palace. It’s the largest such dwelling in North ...

Going up the ladder with her father was a precarious proposition. Sarah Van Orden had dreamed of seeing the Ancient Puebloan cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado since she was a kid ...

He lived an adventurous life, climbing mountains, exploring caves and scrambling into cliff dwellings ... that completed the provenance of the ancient Puebloan blanket known as the Telluride ...

As climate change shapes the Southwest, Mesa Verde National Park strives to protect both ancient forests ... Mealey walked backward off a cliff above Spruce Tree House, one of the best-preserved ...

Guided tours can lead visitors on paths carved by Ancestral Puebloans into immaculately preserved cliff dwellings. Home to ancient ruins of a lost civilization of the Pueblo people, Mesa Verde ...

Many scholars agree that the name Tonto derived from the Chiricahua name for Western Apaches — bini édiné — meaning “people without minds.” This may have referred to the fact that they spoke a ...

Further exploration led to the discovery of the largest concentration of cliff dwellings ever found ... that might help determine what the ancient Puebloans had been eating so long ago.