At Mesa Verde, Spanish for "green table," multistoried dwellings fill the cliff-rock alcoves that rise 2,000 feet above Montezuma Valley. Remarkably preserved, the cliff dwellings cluster in ...

Within a radius of ten miles are to be found the famous cliff dwellings, the beautiful San Francisco peaks, the ancient cave dwellings, and the well-known bottomless pits. Here the every whim of ...

Many scholars agree that the name Tonto derived from the Chiricahua name for Western Apaches — bini édiné — meaning “people without minds.” This may have referred to the fact that they spoke a ...

For David Roberts, who writes about why the ancient Anasazi people of the American West abandoned their cliffside dwellings some 700 years ago ("Riddles of the Anasazi"), one of the more ...

Further exploration led to the discovery of the largest concentration of cliff dwellings ever found, built by the ancestors of the Pueblo Indians nearly 1,000 years earlier. At first it seemed ...

As climate change shapes the Southwest, Mesa Verde National Park strives to protect both ancient forests and vulnerable cliff dwellings. Hooked onto a rope slung around a tree, National Park Service ...

Visitors have the opportunity to see the Cliff dwellings of the Sinagua Indians, and built-in alcoves in the sandstone walls of the canyon. This National Monument offers the amazing chance to walk ...