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Mesa Verde National Park, CO - Cliff Palace

The Cliff Palace ruins at Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado's Montezuma County. Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in North America. Tree ring dating from logs used in the complex indicates that construction and refurbishing of Cliff Palace was continuous from about 1190 through 1260 A.D. The Anasazi, or "ancient ones" -- ancestors of later Puebloan Indians -- who constructed this cliff dwelling had abandoned it by 1300, for reasons that are debated to this day. Causal theories range from the ravages of drought and flight from enemies to (in the extreme) the demands of a religously fanatic leader. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2016.
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Keywords:anasazi, cliff dwellings, cliff palace, colorado, mesa verde national park, montezuma county

Mesa Verde National Park, CO - Cliff Palace