Cliff Palace multi-storey Anasazi cliff dwelling, Mesa Verde, Colorado: view of four-storey square tower at SE end of cave showing terraces & kivas.
Cliff Palace multi-storey Anasazi cliff dwelling, Mesa Verde, Colorado: view of four-storey square tower at SE end of cave showing terraces, kivas and apartment blocks. Cliff Palace contains 217 rooms & 23 kivas (circular ceremonial chambers); it was home to 200-250 people in the years c AD1200-1300. The structures were well built of shaped sandstone blocks jointed with mud and water mortar and coated with a thin layer of mud plaster. Note the T-shaped doorways and projecting ends of vigas (ceiling/floor beams). There are storage rooms on an upper level of the cave, refuse was dumped into the canyon and at the back of the cave. Situated on Chapin Mesa on the SE loop of Ruins Road.
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Location: Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park, Montezuma County, Colorado, USA
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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