White House Ruin, Canyon de Chelly, Arizona: Anasazi sandstone cliff dwelling (roomblocks) & lizard petroglyph.

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White House Ruin, Canyon de Chelly, Arizona: Anasazi cliff dwelling (roomblocks) & lizard petroglyph. Rooms in the sandstone cliff were reached by wooden ladders from the roofs of the multi-storey pueblo on the canyon floor. A village of 100 or more people in use c AD1060-1275. The canyon walls consist mainly of De Chelly Sandstone formed from dunes some 200 million years ago during the late Permian Period. View looking N taken from canyon bottom.

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Location: White House Ruin, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Chinle, Apache County, Arizona, USA
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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