The Mesa Verde archaeological region ... in the early 13 th century, people began creating what are called "cliff dwellings," which are houses, and in some cases entire villages, built into ...

Why the Mesa Verde people eventually left their homes may never be known. Indeed, they lived in the cliff dwellings for only about the last 75 to 100 years of their occupation of Mesa Verde.

Nestled on a sandstone plateau in southwestern Colorado rests another such wonder: Mesa Verde ... around canyon rims. The cliff dwellings follow this trend, allowing people to access seep springs ...

MESA VERDE National Park, a collection of cliff dwellings that are part of one ... park officials discourage people with respiratory or heart concerns from taking either hike.

And for just a moment I slipped back to a typical afternoon between 600 and 1300 AD, when people lived in these dwellings ... the second-largest cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde National Park.

There, it would be reassembled into an entirely different style of Ancestral Puebloan architecture — cliff dwellings ... descendant here from the people of Mesa Verde, the Pueblo people didn ...

Take a ranger-guided tour of Mesa Verde's immaculate Cliff Palace and Balcony House ancient cliff dwellings and immerse yourself in the lives of the mysterious ancestral Pueblo people who made ...

(CBS4)- The Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde was illuminated for the holidays in what is a long-standing tradition at the park. The cliff dwellings were lit with lanterns while luminarias lined the ...

Researchers say they have new evidence that ancestral Pueblo people who disappeared from the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings of southwestern Colorado 700 years ago migrated to what is now New Mexico.

Cliff Palace is the largest (and most well-known) of the Cliff Dwellings in Mesa Verde National Park. The site boasts 150 rooms, 23 Kivas, and over 100 people lived in the area. Kivas were ancient ...

One look at the iconic cliff dwellings at Mesa ... to why they might have left the Mesa Verde region; we have ideas,” Sholly said. “But obviously the people that were living in the Mesa ...