Mesa Verde National Park
A great concentration of ancestral Pueblo Indian dwellings, built from the 6th to the 12th century, can be found on the Mesa Verde plateau in south-west Colorado at an altitude of more than 2,600 m. Some 4,400 sites have been recorded, including villages built on the Mesa top. There are also imposing cliff dwellings, built of stone and comprising more than 100 rooms.
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Mesa Verde is a testimony to the lost Anasazi civilization, consisting of rock-cut villages on a high plateau in Southwestern Colorado.
The area has seen regular human occupation since the 6th century. The Anasazi (or Ancestral Pueblans) constructed villages with several functions: agricultural, handicrafts, religious. The villages were adapted to the rigors of the natural environment, and its semi-arid climate. Multi-storey constructions
were erected under the shelter of the cliffs.
The culture reached its epogee between the 11th and 13th century, before suddenly disappearing.
The site was rediscovered in 1874.
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