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Mesa Verde National Park was established in 1906 to preserve the archeological heritage of the Ancestral Pueblo people who made it their home for over 700 years, from 600 to 1300 CE. Today, the park protects nearly 5,000 known archeological sites, including 600 cliff dwellings.
Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in North America. The structure built by the Anasazi ancestral Puebloans is located in Mesa Verde National Park in their former homeland region. They occupied the Mesa Verde region from about 450 AD to 1300 AD. It was discovered 1888 by two cowboys looking for stray cattle.
Cliff dwelling. The Anasazi ("Ancient Ones"), thought to be ancestors of the modern Pueblo Indians, inhabited the Four Corners country of southern Utah, southwestern Colorado, northwestern New Mexico, and northern Arizona from about A.D. 200 to A.D. 1300, leaving a heavy accumulation of house remains and debris.
This panorama shows Mesa Verde, an American national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado. The park showcases some of the best-preserved Ancestral Puebloan archaeological sites in the United States.
Il Parco Nazionale di Mesa Verde è un'area protetta nello stato del Colorado e patrimonio dell'umanità dell'UNESCO. E’ situata su un altopiano con un'altitudine variabile tra 1860 m e 2560 m e comprende un'area in cui sono presenti i resti di numerosi insediamenti costruiti dagli antichi Popoli Ancestrali, una volta denominati Anasazi. Si tratta di villaggi costruiti all'interno di rientranze della roccia, denominati cliff-dwellings.
Nonostante i più antichi insediamenti all'interno del parco nazionale di Mesa Verde risalgano a non oltre 800 anni fa, la regione era abitata dagli Anasazi già dal VI secolo. Questi primi abitanti di Mesa Verde, di cui non si conosce né l'origine né il nome con cui essi si definivano, vivevano inizialmente in abitazioni a pozzo (pit houses) formanti piccoli villaggi disposti su una superficie piuttosto vasta
A partire dall'inizio del XII secolo gli Anasazi iniziarono a costruire i loro villaggi all'interno di rientranza della roccia, realizzando gli gli insediamenti visibili oggi a Mesa Verde.
Il motivo dell'abbandono degli insediamenti da parte degli Anasazi non è ancora stato chiarito. Tra le ipotesi possibili vi sono i mutamenti climatici che avrebbero causato una scarsità di risorse tali di impedire la sopravvivenza in quei luoghi, oppure il verificarsi di forti tensioni a livello sociale.
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Spruce Tree House stands aglow under red lights in early evening twilight during the annual luminary program at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado.
Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in North America. It contained 150 rooms and 23 kivas with a population of approximately 100 people.
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
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You have probably seen images of the same place shot at different times and under different lights. But have you seen images of a place from the perspective of two minds?
It turns out that my brother from our ancient village of writer-photographers —the amazing courtney_meier— also has an image from this overlook. The two of us coordinated a same-day posting of our Mancos valley photos. Just because.
Head over here for Courtney’s photo.
Notes: This image was photographed handheld a few hundred meters down the road from the Mancos overlook in the Mesa Verde National Park. I hope you see the rain in the distance behind the peak.
For about a century the Ancestral Puebloan People lived in cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde, starting in the late 1100s. By the 1300s they moved on into New Mexico and Arizona.
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It's a familiar scene to any photographer - to some people, it is just a dead tree. I found this tree absolutely amazing. I can photograph the same tree on different days, through different seasons and in different lighting conditions. I took this shot early in the morning. It was at the moment when the wind started to form the clouds in one direction, same direction the branches were growing along with the wind. That why I gave it a title "Gone with the wind..." I could feel myself getting emotional and excited by taking photos of this tree!
For your inspiration! Enjoy it!
This area has repeatedly been occupied then abandoned over a span of a thousand years or more.
Mesa Verde National Park.
Throughout the course of these travelogue posts about the trip, I’ve used the word sacred quite a few times. Yes, it’s out of necessity and objective truth, as native tribes hold these public lands as sacred in their creation myths, but I’ve also felt that these lands should be sacred to everyone for these cultural reasons and for their sheer beauty. It should come as no surprise, then, that Mesa Verde National Park also fits into this category and might be the undisputed superlative of the whole collection of places that we visited. Situated high on a verdant mesa in the Colorado wilderness that’s rife with natural beauty, the anthropological side of Mesa Verde is far beyond anything that I’ve ever experienced: hiking and climbing and crawling (more on that later) to get in and out of 700 year old dwellings. Wooden beams and art that’s withstood the elements and tests of time even though they’re exposed to the elements because those elements (desert heat and elevation!) helped preserve them. Ornate pottery remains in cliff dwellings and preserved in stellar museum exhibits. All of this and more felt like I was stepping into a page in one of my history books. So yes, Mesa Verde is sacred for the fact that it is a place of cultural heritage, but it’s also sacred for any visitor that comes to it and revel in the experience of this special National Park.
Keep calling your reps. Public lands and the National Park Service budget is still at risk. Experiences like this must be kept for all.
Mesa Verde is in the southwestern corner of Colorado was constructed throughout the thirteenth century by cliff-dwelling Ancestral Puebloans. Cliff Palace, which is the largest cliff-dwelling in North America, is believed to have sustained a population of about 100 people until a drought lasting longer than two decades forced relocation. Mesa Verde is still thought to inhabit the spirits of the ancestors of the Pueblo.
One last @mesaverdenps shot for the road- we didn’t see much wildlife on this trip, but we did get to see one of the animals I was eager to see! A collared lizard darting over the rocks and looking to warm up and sun himself in the summer heat.
Don’t be fooled by the recent “make America beautiful again” executive order that’s been signed in the face of the budget bill being passed and seemingly restoring funding for the parks that’s been cut. It’s just a political maneuver to make this administration look like it has to solutions to problems that it has created. Keep calling and speaking out.
Mesa Verde is in the southwestern corner of Colorado was constructed throughout the thirteenth century by cliff-dwelling Ancestral Puebloans. Cliff Palace, which is the largest cliff-dwelling in North America, is believed to have sustained a population of about 100 people until a drought lasting longer than two decades forced relocation. Mesa Verde is still thought to inhabit the spirits of the ancestors of the Pueblo. @visitmesaverde @mesaverdefoundation
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The last light of day skims the floor of the Mancos Valley as distant snow clouds move off toward mountains and mesas to the north, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
One of the most interesting things I learned when visiting this part of southwest Colorado is that the region was more heavily populated during the mid 1200s than it is in the current day. The Ancestral Puebloans were able to coax an astounding quantity of reliable food from the crops they dry-farmed in this arid land, although their task would be harder to impossible today given the extended and nearly unprecedented drought that grips the American West.
The weather just before Thanksgiving brought flurries of snow to Mesa Verde, and as we explored the ruins of 800 year-old stone lodgings, the cold settled in and made itself at home. As the day came to a close, we left the ancient dwellings and began our descent back to the Mancos Valley just as we passed the eponymous overlook. I was in time to step out of the vehicle, stretch the legs briefly, and take in the last light of the day.
As it turns out, Ramen Saha and I both have photos made from this vantage, and I am interested to see what differences arise between our two images based on the day, light, and photographer!
Find the cliff dwelling. Imagine getting in and out of it. Imagine building it. Imagine living in it. Imagine the culture and people who built it and occupied it. Why build here? So many questions.
Mesa Verde National Park.
A setting looking to the south while taking in views across a grassy meadow to the sandstone and shale formation with Point Lookout in Grand Canyon National Park. This is at a roadside pullout along the main park road just inside the entrance. My thought on composing this image was to capture a look across this grassy meadow from some high ground I was located on and bring out a sweeping view, leading up to the Point Lookout formation, which I wanted more or less in the image center. The blue skies and clouds would be that color contrast to complement the earth-tones in the lower portion of the image.
The national park officially calls these "wild trespass horses." There's a story, but the official label will do for now.
This portrait of a Mule Deer buck kicks off a series of horns and antlers images. You might say yesterday's post was the start of the series, since in contained several horned critters.
We found this handsome guy fourteen years ago in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
I'm sure all these cliff dwellings have names, but there was no signage. In fact, the pull outs were just tiny little dirt patches and you had to drive slowly just to spot them.
Mesa Verde National Park
One of my first attempts at night photography at Far View located in Mesa Verde National Park. More to learn but I'm happy with this initial try.
A setting looking to the southeast while taking in views across Spruce Canyon to a cliff dwelling. This was while hiking the Petroglyph Point Trail in Mesa Verde National Park. With this image, I zoomed in a little with the focal length to have more of the cliff dwellings fill the image center.
Mesa Verde is a park of challenges. A few years ago, shots like this wouldn’t have been possible. Cliff Palace. Balcony House. The iconic and up close vistas of Mesa Verde National Park that sums up what this park is really about- the intimate experience of being immersed in ruins, rather than just seeing them from afar. These shots aren’t easy to get- they require scrambling up and down steep rock faces and cliffs on the canyon walls, squeezing yourself through a 18 inch wide tunnel, and most harrowing of all, climbing a 33 foot ladder, strapped to the sheer wall of the canyon, several hundred (maybe a thousand?) feet off the ground of the canyon’s floor. You’re essentially climbing a ladder surrounded by the hot desert air, and nothing else. If you’ve seen my Instagram stories, you’ll know that the last three years have been somewhat of a transformative three years as I’ve lost 95 pounds and endeavored to get into shape. (If you already know this, thank you for indulging me, but talking about it makes it more real and keeps me committed!) I still have progress to make but the difference between now and three years ago is night and day. Scrambling down and around and over and through those rocks, on that ladder, and through that tiny tunnel that I doubted I would have been able to fit into, once upon a time, was a challenge, but it was fun. It was invigorating. And it was possible. I was deeply happy and impressed and proud of myself.
That’s such a weird feeling and such a blessing. Health and exercise is a gift. A gift you have to work hard at, but a gift, nonetheless.
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Mesa Verde is in the southwestern corner of Colorado was constructed throughout the thirteenth century by cliff-dwelling Ancestral Puebloans. Cliff Palace, which is the largest cliff-dwelling in North America, is believed to have sustained a population of about 100 people until a drought lasting longer than two decades forced relocation. Mesa Verde is still thought to inhabit the spirits of the ancestors of the Pueblo.