Mesa Verde Cliff Dwelling Tour
Take a guided tour through Mesa Verde National Park's cliff dwellings of the Ancestral Pueblo people who lived here from AD 600 to 1300.
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Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde National Park
Ranger Paul talked about the Anasazi people and the cliff dwellings. This video was taken at Cliff Palace. This video would be great for homeschooling.
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The Mystery of the Ancient Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde, Colorado, USA | Ancient Architects
Not many people will have heard of this amazing site in Colorado USA, a site that is the largest cliff dwelling in North America and known as Cliff Palace.
Cliff Palace was built by a people known as the Ancestral Pueblans, also known as the Anasazi, which means the ancient ones. They were native to the Four Corners region of the United States, where the states of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona neatly intersect.
It is estimated that around 100 to 125 people lived here between 1200 and 1300 AD and they accessed the site with the aid of retractable wooden ladders. It has 150 rooms, constructed out of natural sandstone, with the addition of wooden beams and mortar.
Cliff Palace is a truly incredible site displaying unique architecture and murals from the Ancestral Puebloan culture and although we do know a great deal about the people that lived here, there is one mystery about the site: why was it abandoned around 1300 AD? Watch this video to learn more and please like and subscribe to the channel.
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A great concentration of ancestral Pueblo Indian dwellings, built from the 6th to the 12th century, can be found on the Mesa Verde plateau in south-west Colorado at an altitude of more than 2,600 m. Some 4,400 sites have been recorded, including villages built on the Mesa top. There are also imposing cliff dwellings, built of stone and comprising more than 100 rooms.
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Mesa Verde National Park is a U.S. National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. It is the largest archaeological preserve in the United States.[3] The park was created in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt, to protect some of the best-preserved cliff dwellings in the world, or as he said, preserve the works of man. As a result, it is the first, and still only, cultural National Park set aside by the National Park System.[4] It occupies 81.4 square miles (211 km2) near the Four Corners and features numerous ruins of homes and villages built by the Ancestral Puebloan people, sometimes called the Anasazi. There are over four thousand archaeological sites and over six hundred cliff dwellings of the Pueblo people at the site.
The Anasazi inhabited Mesa Verde between 600 to 1300, though there is evidence they left before the start of the fifteenth century. They were mainly subsistence farmers, growing crops on nearby mesas. Their primary crop was corn, the major part of their diet. Men were also hunters, which further increased their food supply. The women of the Anasazi are famous for their elegant basket weaving. Anasazi pottery is as famous as their baskets; their artifacts are highly prized. The Anasazi kept no written records.
By the year 750, the people were building mesa-top villages made of adobe. In the late 1190s, they began to build the cliff dwellings for which Mesa Verde is famous.
Mesa Verde is best known for cliff dwellings, which are structures built within caves and under outcroppings in cliffs — including Cliff Palace, thought to be the largest cliff dwelling in North America. The Spanish term Mesa Verde translates into English as green table. It is considered to contain some of the most notable and best preserved archaeological sites.[5]
Mesa Verde National Park | Living on the edge in Colorado
Mesa Verde National Park offers a spectacular look into the lives of the Ancestral Puebloans, a group of people who lived in the Four Corners region for more than 700 years.
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ABOUT MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK IN COLORADO
Mesa Verde National Park (Spanish for green tableland) was established to preserve archaeological sites built by the Ancestral Puebloans who inhabited Mesa Verde for more than 700 years (550 A.D. to 1300 A.D.). Currently Mesa Verde has over 4,700 archaeological sites including 600 cliff dwellings and the mesa top sites of pithouses, pueblos, masonry towers, and farming structure, with many more yet to be discovered. These sites are some of the most notable and best preserved ruins in the United States. For the first six centuries, they primarily lived on the mesa tops. It was not until the final 75 to 100 years that they constructed and lived in the cliff dwellings for which Mesa Verde is best known.
Mesa Verde National Park offers a spectacular look into the lives of the Ancestral Puebloans, a group of people living in the Four Corners region who chose Mesa Verde for their home. For more than 700 years they and their descendants lived and flourished in this region, eventually building elaborate stone communities in the sheltered alcoves of the canyon walls. Then, in the late A.D. 1200s, in the span of a generation or two, they left their homes and moved away.
Five of the most impressive cliff dwelling sites include:
• Balcony House – is reachable by climbing a 32-foot ladder and crawling through a short tunnel.
• Cliff Palace – has more than 150 rooms occupying a deep alcove beneath a canyon rim.
• Long House - was excavated between 1959 and 1961 as part of the Wetherill Mesa Archeological Project.
• Spruce Tree House - is the best preserved cliff dwelling in all of Mesa Verde National Park.
• Step House - shows evidence of two occupations taking place in one location.
Cliff dwelling tours vary from independent self-guided tours to ranger-led walking tours. Comprehensive, interpretive, half-day guided bus tours feature a variety of sites, including Cliff Palace.
That’s just a small part of the adventure and beauty you’ll find here!
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Mesa Verde Square Tower House Overlook
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This site was being restored while I was there so it was interesting to see that. Look at how huge the canyon is! This whole Mesa Top area is full of archeological sites. Everywhere you look along that shale shelf in the cliffs, there were ruins. This was an amazing trip.
Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park
View of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park on a ranger guided tour.
Mesa Verde National Park - Balcony House - Cliff Palace - Cliff Dwellings - LeAw in the USA //Ep.26
We are living the American dream driving the Historic Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica but we are doing some detours to visit some places we like.
In this 26th episode, we visit Mesa Verde National Park.
Balcony House Tour in the morning and Cliff Palace Tour in the evening.
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Mesa Verde National Park is a U.S. National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. It is the largest archaeological preserve in the United States. The park was created in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt, to protect some of the best-preserved cliff dwellings in the world, or as he said, preserve the works of man. As a result, it is the first, and still only, cultural National Park set aside by the National Park System. It occupies 81.4 square miles (211 km2) near the Four Corners and features numerous ruins of homes and villages built by the Ancestral Puebloan people, sometimes called the Anasazi. There are over four thousand archaeological sites and over six hundred cliff dwellings of the Pueblo people at the site.
The Anasazi inhabited Mesa Verde between 600 to 1300, though there is evidence they left before the start of the fifteenth century. They were mainly subsistence farmers, growing crops on nearby mesas. Their primary crop was corn, the major part of their diet. Men were also hunters, which further increased their food supply. The women of the Anasazi are famous for their elegant basket weaving. Anasazi pottery is as famous as their baskets; their artifacts are highly prized. The Anasazi kept no written records.
By the year 750, the people were building mesa-top villages made of adobe. In the late 1190s, they began to build the cliff dwellings for which Mesa Verde is famous.
Mesa Verde is best known for cliff dwellings, which are structures built within caves and under outcroppings in cliffs — including Cliff Palace, thought to be the largest cliff dwelling in North America. The Spanish term Mesa Verde translates into English as green table. It is considered to contain some of the most notable and best preserved archaeological sites.
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Perched on the cliffsides of the Mesa Verde Plateau, exists the remnants of prehistoric Pueblo settlements.
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Mesa Verde
National Park,
Colorado USA
Ancestral Pueblo People
of Mesa Verde
Mesa Verde, Spanish for
green table, offers a spectacular
look into the lives of the
Ancestral Pueblo people
who made it their home for
over 700 years, from
AD 600 to 1300.
Today the park protects
nearly 5,000 known
archeological sites,
including 600 cliff dwellings.
These sites are some
of the most notable and
best preserved in the
United States.
About 1,400 years ago,
long before Europeans explored
North America, a group
of people living in the
Four Corners region chose
Mesa Verde for their home.
For more than 700 years
they and their descendants
lived and flourished here,
eventually building elaborate
stone communities in the
sheltered alcoves of the
canyon walls.
Then, in the late A.D. 1200s,
in the span of a generation
or two, they left their homes
and moved away.
Mesa Verde National Park
preserves a spectacular
reminder of this ancient culture.
It occupies 81.4 square miles
(211 km2) near the Four Corners
and features numerous ruins
of homes and villages built
by the Ancient
Pueblo peoples,
sometimes called the Anasazi.
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Cliff Palace,
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Balcony House,
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House of many Windows
Navajo Canyon Overlook
Square Tower House
Pithouses and Pueblos
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President Theodore Roosevelt on June 29, 1906, set aside Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado. This land, inhabited by Ancestral Puebloans for over 700 years, included the most complete and extensive concentration of prehistoric cliff dwellings in the United States. Today, the park protects over 4,000 known archeological sites, including 600 cliff dwellings. In fact, these sites are some of the most notable and best preserved in the United States.
The Native Americans first settled on the Colorado Plateau and farmed the mesas. Life was hard in the arid climate, boasting warm summers, cold winters, and limited rainfall. They lived in various settlements above ground until AD 1100, when they started constructing the massive cliff dwellings.
Many have thought that the Ancestral Puebloans retreated to the cliff dwellings to hide from aggressors, but archeological evidence does not support that theory. In fact, the entire region lived in harmony. The cliff dwellings do offer better protection from the elements than the mesa-top sites, which may be one reason we see so many similar dwellings across the southwest.
Between AD 1200 and 1400, there was a mass exodus from the region. To this date, we still do not know why. Perhaps the climate changed significantly, eliminating the ability to farm on the mesa. What do we know, is that their descendants live on in modern tribes residing in the Rio Grande river valley in New Mexico, the Ute in Colorado, and the Hopi in Arizona.
Each year, new dwellings are continued to be uncovered, allowing researchers to peer deeper and deeper into the past. It is this continued effort that has led to the decade old change in name from Anasazi to Ancestral Puebloan to reflect the people who lived here.
When traveling in the Southwest, there are many must-see National Parks,. This is one of them. The fact that you can still walk the grounds and experience the cliff dwellings from within, make it not only a wondrous educational opportunity, but an experiential one as well. The park is open year-round and worth spending at least three days exploring its history.
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The Anasazi at Mesa Verde
An educational tour of the Anasazi ruins at Mesa Verde.
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Seven centuries ago, an entire society performed one of the greatest vanishing acts in human history when they fled their homes in the American Southwest. Archaeologists are trying to work out why they left.
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The Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in North America. The structure built by the Ancient Pueblo Peoples is located in Mesa Verde National Park in their former homeland region. The cliff dwelling and park are in the southwestern corner of Colorado, in the Southwestern United States.
Mesa Verde National Park is a U.S. National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. It was created in 1906 to protect some of the best preserved cliff dwellings in the world. The park occupies 81.4 square miles (211 km2) (211 square kilometers) near the Four Corners and features numerous ruins of homes and villages built by the Ancestral Puebloan people, sometimes called the Anasazi. The Ancestral Puebloans made these stone villages their home in the 13th century, however, the first Ancestral Puebloans settled in Mesa Verde over 600 years before the cliff dwellings were ever built. These first people are known as the Basketmakers and they lived in pithouses clustered into small villages usually built on mesa tops but sometimes in the overhangs of the cliffs. These hunter gatherer people settled and began farming and using the bow and arrow, a weapon that was more efficient and accurate than the atlatl.
By 750 CE, the people were building mesa-top villages made of adobe. By the late 12th century they began to build the cliff dwellings for which Mesa Verde is famous. The Spanish term Mesa Verde translates into English as green table. Approximately 600 of the over 4700 archeological sites found in Mesa Verde National Park are cliff dwellings.
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A Tour of the Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde NP
Here is a close-up view of the Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde National Park. The Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in North America with some 150 rooms. The Cliff Palace is an amazing archeological site, don't miss this video.
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In this episode of Cheap Family Travel ( we travel to Mesa Verde National Park, near the Four Corners in southwest Colorado. The Anasazi Indians settled in this area and lived in these famous cliff dwellings, including Balcony House, Cliff Palace, and Spruce Tree House. We camped at the Morefield Village a beautiful Campground in the National Park, and we saw lots of Colorado Mesa Verde wildlife, such as deer and bears. Walking through the cliff dwellings was fascinating and gave us a great experience of Native American lifestyle. Mesa Verde is one of the world heritage sites of the world. We loved climbing through the Colorado Mesa Verde cliff dwellings.