The small stone cubicles - which resemble latter-day pueblo dwellings - included square window holes and even shelves carved into the walls. The homes are just another example of the unusual building ...

Bandelier National Monument is located in northern New Mexico, making it an easy day trip when visiting Santa Fe or Los Alamos. The park spans over 33,000 acres of rugged canyon and mesa country ...

"Many of the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde are small, only one or two rooms built in alcoves or shallow caves," wrote archaeologist Larry Nordby in a chapter of the book "The Conservation of ...

Around A.D. 1250, seeking refuge from some unknown threat, the Anasazi migrated from open villages to nearly inaccessible dwellings. A generation later, they moved again. Douglas Merriam In 1874 ...

Indeed, they lived in the cliff dwellings for only about the last 75 to 100 years of their occupation of Mesa Verde. Early archaeologists guessed warfare, and the evidence for this seems to concur.

The cliff dwellings only begin in the final 75 years of the 6th century. Corn grinding stones found in Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde. Photo: Planet One Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

Here’s the secret of Navajo National Monument. If the hike to the Betatakin cliff dwellings ended at a big blank wall, it would still be worth going. The canyon is beautiful and peaceful with ...

What’s wrong with the Manitou Cliff Dwellings Museum and ... a small resort town at the ... and Ashenhurst had no desire to relocate an actual cliff dwelling and reassemble it stone by ...