Mesa Verde National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
For over 700 years, the Ancestral Pueblo people built thriving communities on the mesas and in the cliffs of Mesa Verde. Today, the park protects the rich cultural heritage of 27 Pueblos and Tribes and offers visitors a spectacular window into the past.
Aztec Ruins National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Learn more about the ancestral Pueblo people in the park's museum and explore the Aztec West great house to see exceptionally advanced architecture, original wooden beams, and a restored Great Kiva. Aztec Ruins is a deeply sacred place to many Indigenous peoples across the American Southwest.
List of Ancestral Puebloan dwellings in Colorado - Wikipedia
Spring Creek Archaeological District, also known as Zabel Canyon Indian Ruins, is located in the San Juan National Forest. The site was inhabited from 300 BC through Pueblo times Ancient Pueblo People. In the protohistoric periods of southwestern Colorado the Ute, Apache and Navajo ranged and lived in the area.
Tour Ancient Puebloan Ruins in Colorado - Uncover Colorado
2024年9月6日 · The ruins show a myriad of Ancient Puebloan culture, including villages, kivas, shrines, check dams, reservoirs, petroglyphs, and so on. The Canyons of the Ancients region have been used for more than 10,000 years, as a home and hunting grounds, for raising livestock, developing energy, and recreation.
Cliff Dwellings - Mesa Verde National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
The cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde are some of the most notable and best preserved in North America. Sometime during the late 1190s, after primarily living on the mesa tops for 600 years, many Ancestral Pueblo people began moving into pueblos they built into natural cliff alcoves.
Ancestral Puebloans - Wikipedia
The Ancestral Puebloans, also known as the Anasazi and by the earlier term the Basketmaker-Pueblo culture, were an ancient Native American culture that spanned the present-day Four Corners region of the United States, comprising southeastern Utah, northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado.
Ancestral Puebloan dwellings - Wikipedia
Hundreds of Ancestral Puebloan dwellings are found across the American Southwest. With almost all constructed well before 1492 CE, these Puebloan towns and villages are located throughout the geography of the Southwest.
Mesa Verde National Park | Ancient Ruins, Cliff Dwellings, …
Mesa Verde National Park, national park in southwestern Colorado, U.S., established in 1906 to preserve notable prehistoric cliff dwellings; it was designated a World Heritage site in 1978. Occupying a high tableland area of 81 square miles (210 square km), it contains hundreds of pueblo (Indian village) ruins up to 13 centuries old.
Lowry Pueblo National Historic Landmark - Bureau of Land Management
Visit a 1,000-year-old ancestral Puebloan site, which includes a 40-room village. The Lowry Pueblo site was first excavated in 1931 and became a National Historic Landmark in 1967. It is one of the most significant BLM archaeological sites in the Four Corners region, where Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona meet.
5 of the Most Accessible Indian Ruins in Arizona - Simply Wander
2021年5月17日 · Take a short walk to the remnants of the Lomaki Pueblo, a two-story adobe brick structure that translates to “beautiful house”. Stop for a picnic at the Doney Picnic Area with a short nature trail that offers views of the Wupatki basin and the distant Painted Desert. And be sure to make time to visit the crowning jewel, the Wupatki Pueblo.