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| Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde, in Colorado. |
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Click image to enlarge, browser's Back to return Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde, in Colorado. About 1400 years ago a group of stone-age peoples, named "Anasazi" or "the Ancient Enemies" by the Navajos who came after them, settled in Mesa Verde and other plateau and canyon areas in the Southwest. Formerly a nomadic people, they built great masonry and stone towns, hunted small game, and cultivated crops of corn, beans and squash. For 700 years, roughly the 7th through the 14th centuries, they flourished in three regional centers: the Kayenta (Arizona); the Chaco (New Mexico) and the Mesa Verde (Colorado). These settlements were loosely linked by a network of roads, showing the importance of trade in their economy. Cliff Palace is the largest Anasazi cliff dwelling in North America. |
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