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Mesa Top Loop Site Trail features this example of how Pueblo people would have lived on top of the mesa prior to building cliff dwellings. This image depicts the interior of one of the many pit houses at Mesa Verde.

This site is educational in the way we should respect native lands. The importance of acknowledging the injustice to indigenous people and the present day ramifications that are still affecting those native to this land.

Day Hiking Trails Blog Post Link About Mesa Verde

USGS Map of the Mesa Verde elevation and topography

Overview of Mesa Verde National Park

Chapter 10 Evidence of a Mesa Verde Homeland for
the Tewa Pueblos

At Mug House: Ranger Jill explains how dendrochronology, or tree-ring dating, is used by researchers to date archeological sites, including the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings.

Dendrochronology (dendro = tree, chron = time, ology = a science), or…

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Mexican-Spanish missionaries and explorers Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, seeking a route from Santa Fe to California, faithfully recorded their travels in 1776. They reached Mesa Verde (green plateau) region, which…

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…