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  2. Cliff Palace - Wikipedia

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    Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in North America. The structure built by the Ancestral Puebloans is located in Mesa Verde National Park in their former homeland region. The cliff dwelling and park are in Montezuma County , in the southwestern corner of Colorado , in the Southwestern United States .

  3. Richard Wetherill - Wikipedia

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    Cliff Palace, named by Wetherill, is the largest cliff dwelling in the United States and had been undisturbed for almost 700 years since abandoned by the Ancestral Puebloans. Richard Wetherill along with his father B.K. Wetherill, brothers Al, John and Win, extended family, and neighbors explored Cliff Palace, digging, excavating, cataloging ...

  4. Mesa Verde National Park - Wikipedia

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    Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde National Park. [32] A severe drought from 1130 to 1180 led to rapid depopulation in many parts of the San Juan Basin, particularly at Chaco Canyon. As the extensive Chacoan system collapsed, people increasingly migrated to Mesa Verde, causing major population growth in the area.

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    The largest cliff dwelling in North America, Cliff Palace is part of Mesa Verde National Park. The structure is believed to have been built in about 1190 by the Ancestral Puebloans and once ...

  6. Ancestral Puebloans - Wikipedia

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    Large ramps and stairways in the cliff rock connect the roads above the canyon to sites at the bottom. The largest roads, built at the same time as many of the great houses (1000 to 1125 CE), are: the Great North Road, the South Road, the Coyote Canyon Road , the Chacra Face Road , Ahshislepah Road, Mexican Springs Road , the West Road, and the ...

  7. Mesa Verde region - Wikipedia

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    Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.Cliff Canyon, as seen from the Cliff Palace. Mesa Verde mug, made in 13th century, MVNP museum collections. The Mesa Verde Region is a portion of the Colorado Plateau in the United States that extends through parts of New Mexico, Colorado and Utah.

  8. Local history: Grand Irving Cliff Hotel overlooking Honesdale ...

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    Irving Cliff Hotel is pictured adorning the cliff above Park Lake in Honesdale circa 1885. The long-delayed hotel burned down May 2, 1889, before it was to open that year. Louis Hensel was the ...

  9. Gustaf Nordenskiöld - Wikipedia

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    Gustaf Nordenskiöld (29 June 1868 – 6 June 1895) was a Swedish scholar of Finnish-Swedish descent who was the first to scientifically study the ancient Pueblo cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde. He was a member of the Nordenskiöld family of scientists and the eldest son of polar explorer Baron Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld and his equally ...