built by the ancestors of the Pueblo Indians nearly 1,000 years earlier. At first it seemed that Mesa Verde might suffer the same fate as smaller ancient sites discovered in the Four Corners area ...

They are now more accurately called the ancestral Puebloans, and modern Pueblo ... an ancient dwelling of the Anasazi people and the third largest cliff dwelling in Colorado's Mesa Verde National ...

Mesa Verde's cliff dwellings are a little crumbly ... it's easy to imagine the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo Indians who built these cliff houses 800 years ago. Ancestral Puebloans grew squash ...

This Pueblo consists of a large ... to describe the ancient people of this land. The Mesa is on the western side of Mesa Verde National Park, about 30 minutes from the road fork (near Far View ...

Home to ancient ruins of a lost civilization of the Pueblo people, Mesa Verde National Park occupies over 80 square miles of Montezuma County. The park was established in 1906, and ever since ...