Cliff Dwellings Of The Mesa Verde A Story in Pictures

Mesa Verde, CO: Mesa Verde Museum Association. Very Good-. 1961. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Stapled wraps. B&W Photographs; This is an oblong paperback book with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have spots of foxing and ground-in dirt, especially the front cover. There is a smallish edge tear to the bottom spine end of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. "The cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde are some of the most notable and best preserved in the North American Continent. Sometime during the late 1190s, after primarily living on the mesa top for 600 years, many Ancestral Pueblo people began living in pueblos they built beneath the overhanging cliffs. The structures ranged in size from one-room storage units to villages of more than 150 rooms. While still farming the mesa tops, they continued to reside in the alcoves, repairing, remodeling, and constructing new rooms for nearly a century. By the late 1270s, the population began migrating south into present-day New Mexico and Arizona. By 1300, the Ancestral Puebloan occupation of Mesa Verde ended." (from the National Park Service) .