Mesa Verde's cliff dwellings are a little crumbly ... Ancestral Puebloans grew squash, corn and beans on the mesa and lived in simpler pit houses as early as A.D. 600. They began building cliff ...

Why the Mesa Verde people eventually left their homes may never be known. Indeed, they lived in the cliff dwellings for only about the last 75 to 100 years of their occupation of Mesa Verde.

Mesa Verde National Park ... The exhibits provide fascinating context about how these ancient people lived, worked, and ...

At first it seemed that Mesa Verde might suffer the same fate as smaller ancient sites discovered in the Four Corners area where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah meet. These sites had been ...

7, No. 2, Special Issue: Memoirs and Memory (2016), pp. 23-31 (9 pages) Multiple cultural identities converge in Mesa Verde archaeology. Archaeologists have engaged research questions for the last ...