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The Cliff Palace  
   

The Cliff Palace

This is another dwelling site known as the Cliff Palace. It was a much larger site with many more Kivas indicating that multiple families lived here. The exit was quite narrow and placed between two cliffs. Narrow hand carved steps went over 100 feet straight up over the rocks. Quite facinating.
Mesa Verde National Park

June 20th 2011
Mesa Verde National Park is one of the premier archeological parks administered by the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. It is one of 15 national park units in Colorado and nearly 400 nationwide. On June 29, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt established Mesa Verde National Park to preserve the works of ancient man, the first and still the only park of it's kind. Preserve ... read more
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