Mesa Verde is Spanish for "green table," and the people who lived there are often called the "Anasazi," a Navajo word that has been translated as "the ancient ones" or "enemy ancestors." ...

Archaeologists have located some 600 cliff dwellings in Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park. ... document the changes in the lives of a prehistoric people once dubbed the Anasazi.

Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado protects and preserves the cultural heritage of 26 tribes of Ancestral ...

At all three, the researchers found typical Mesa Verde black-on-white pottery. At a site called Pinnacle Ruin, Lekson’s team found evidence that a village-sized group from the Mesa Verde region ...

WHEN YOU GO TO MESA VERDE I saw a little city of stone asleep. That village sat looking down into the canyon with the calmness of eternity . . . preserved in the dry air and almost perpetual sunlig… ...

Elsewhere, on Mesa Verde, Anasazi started to move into the alcoves under the canyon rims around 1150. By 1200, with a hurried construction of large cliff dwellings, ...

Anasazi from Mesa Verde obviously had conquered Chaco or at least remodeled it, Matlock said. Their brand of architecture was superimposed over the Chacoan remains. For years archaeologists argued ...

Rohn, Arthur H. 1929- Prehistoric developments in the Mesa Verde Region Hayes, Alden C Mesa Verde : a century of research Winter, Joseph C Hovenweep through time Lang, Richard W Craft arts of the Mesa ...

The Anasazi produced great works of art—villages such as Mesa Verde’s Cliff Palace, hallucinatory petroglyph panels, some of the most beautiful pottery in the world—at the same time that its ...