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  The Cliff Dwellings of Mesa Verde

  

  Mesa Verde is a series of cliff dwellings created by the Ancestral Pueblo in southwestern Colorado near the modern city of Cortez in Montezuma county. The people of this area were skilled basket makers, architects, potters, mathematicians, among other things. Their ingenuity allowed them to survive for centuries in the unforgiving…

  July 23, 2021