Dominican University SOIS Omeka Site

Mesa Verde National Park

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Title

Mesa Verde National Park

Subject

This digital collection offers a broad overview of the Pueblo people and the timeline for the structures and tools discovered in Mesa Verde National Park.

Description

This digital collection presents photos, videos, maps and textual analysis about the Mesa Verde National Park.

Creator

Brittaney Nelson

Source

https://www.nps.gov/meve/index.htm

Date

06/18/2021

Items in the Mesa Verde National Park Collection

Pueblo timeline for the construction of cliff dwellings and the US government timeline for the discovery of Mesa Verde.

Mesa Verde and The Preservation of Ancestral Puebloan Heritage. Some of the most remarkable structures in the U.S. are a millennium old.

Video featuring a park ranger and Puebloan Artifacts

Much like we paint and plaster our own houses today, Ancestral Pueblo people used layers of colorful plaster to decorate their walls. Designs were often painted with a fibrous yucca brush or with fingers using paint made from a combination of colored…