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Mesa Verde, Spanish for "green table", offers an unparalleled
opportunity to see and experience a unique cultural and physical
landscape. The culture represented at Mesa Verde reflects more than 700
years of history. From approximately A.D. 600 through A.D. 1300 people
lived and flourished in communities throughout the area, eventually
building elaborate stone villages in the sheltered alcoves of the
canyon walls. Today most people call these sheltered villages "cliff
dwellings". The cliff dwellings represent the last 75 to 100 years of
occupation at Mesa Verde. In the late 1200s within the span of one or
two generations, they left their homes and moved away.

The archeological sites found in Mesa Verde are some of the most
notable and best preserved in the United States. Mesa Verde National
Park offers visitors a spectacular look into the lives of the Ancestral
Pueblo people. Scientists study the ancient dwellings of Mesa Verde, in
part, by making comparisons between the Ancestral Pueblo people and
their contemporary indigenous descendants who still live in the
Southwest today. Twenty-four Native American tribes in the southwest
have an ancestral affiliation with the sites at Mesa Verde.
 
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