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Verde Valley Archaeology Center

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Verde Valley Archaeology Center
Verde Valley Archaeology Center
Verde Valley Archaeology Center
Verde Valley Archaeology Center
Verde Valley Archaeology Center
Verde Valley Archaeology Center
Verde Valley Archaeology Center
Verde Valley Archaeology Center
Verde Valley Archaeology Center
Verde Valley Archaeology Center
Verde Valley Archaeology Center
Verde Valley Archaeology Center
Verde Valley Archaeology Center
Verde Valley Archaeology Center
Verde Valley Archaeology Center
Verde Valley Archaeology Center
Verde Valley Archaeology Center
Verde Valley Archaeology Center
Verde Valley Archaeology Center
Verde Valley Archaeology Center
Verde Valley Archaeology Center
Verde Valley Archaeology Center
Verde Valley Archaeology Center
Verde Valley Archaeology Center
Verde Valley Archaeology Center
Phone:
+1 928-567-0066

Hours:
SundayClosed
MondayClosed
Tuesday10am - 4pm
Wednesday10am - 4pm
Thursday10am - 4pm
Friday10am - 4pm
Saturday10am - 4pm


Mesa Verde National Park is an American national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado. The park protects some of the best-preserved Ancestral Puebloan archaeological sites in the United States. Established by Congress and President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, the park occupies 52,485 acres near the Four Corners region of the American Southwest. With more than 4,300 sites, including 600 cliff dwellings, it is the largest archaeological preserve in the United States. Mesa Verde is best known for structures such as Cliff Palace, thought to be the largest cliff dwelling in North America. Starting c. 7500 BCE, Mesa Verde was seasonally inhabited by a group of nomadic Paleo-Indians known as the Foothills Mountain Complex. The variety of projectile points found in the region indicates they were influenced by surrounding areas, including the Great Basin, the San Juan Basin, and the Rio Grande Valley. Later, Archaic people established semi-permanent rockshelters in and around the mesa. By 1000 BCE, the Basketmaker culture emerged from the local Archaic population, and by 750 CE the Ancestral Puebloans had developed from the Basketmaker culture. The Mesa Verdeans survived using a combination of hunting, gathering, and subsistence farming of crops such as corn, beans, and squash. They built the mesa's first pueblos sometime after 650, and by the end of the 12th century, they began to construct the massive cliff dwellings for which the park is best known. By 1285, following a period of social and environmental instability driven by a series of severe and prolonged droughts, they abandoned the area and moved south to locations in Arizona and New Mexico, including Rio Chama, Pajarito Plateau, and Santa Fe.
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