The structures were built by the Ancestral Pueblo people over 700 years ago. The park also has plentiful opportunities to ...

Mesa Verde is famous for its Ancestral Pueblo cliff dwellings, like Cliff Palace. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. “They’re some of the most magnificent examples of ...

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 ...

The Mesa Verde archaeological region, located in the American Southwest, was the home of a pueblo people who, during the 13th century A.D., constructed entire villages in the sides of cliffs.

Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado protects and preserves the cultural heritage of 26 tribes of Ancestral Pueblo people. Mesa Verde National Park’s history begins long before its ...

2. Get oriented: Upon arrival, take the time to stop by the Mesa Verde Visitor and Research Center at the park’s entrance. Here, you’ll find exhibits on the Ancestral Pueblo people and how ...

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 ...

Another ubiquitous trait of Pueblo sites are their inhabitants ... Researchers examine ancient petroglyphs in Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park Jagiellonian University “I had some hints ...

For 700 years, Mesa Verde was the home of the ancestral Pueblo people, who mysteriously abandoned their cliff dwellings in the late 1200s. Park officials already are making big plans for the event ...

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 ...