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  2. Cliff dwelling - Wikipedia

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    In archaeology, cliff dwellings are dwellings formed by using niches or caves in high cliffs, and sometimes with excavation or additions in the way of masonry. Two special types of cliff dwelling are distinguished by archaeologists: the cliff-house , which is actually built on levels in the cliff, and the cavate , which is dug out, by using ...

  3. Ancestral Puebloan dwellings - Wikipedia

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    Cliff dwellings – Constructed in the sides of the mesas and mountains of the Southwest, cliff dwellings comprised a large number of the defensive structures of the Pueblo people. Jacal is a traditional adobe house built by the ancestral Pueblo peoples. Slim close-set poles were tied together and filled out with mud, clay and grasses, or adobe ...

  4. Puye Cliff Dwellings - Wikipedia

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    The Puye Cliff Dwellings are the ruins of an abandoned pueblo, located in Santa Clara Canyon on Santa Clara Pueblo Reservation land near Española, New Mexico.Established in the late 1200s or early 1300s and abandoned by about 1600, this is among the largest of the prehistoric Indian settlements on the Pajarito Plateau, showing a variety of architectural forms and building techniques.

  5. 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 .

  6. Category:Cliff dwellings - Wikipedia

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    Articles about Cliff dwellings, from ancient to present day dwellings and settlements set in cliffs around the world. The main article for this category is Cliff dwelling . For other Puebloan dwellings in the Southwestern United States , see: Category:Dwellings of the Pueblo peoples ;

  7. Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument - Wikipedia

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    Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument is a U.S. National Monument created to protect Mogollon cliff dwellings in the Gila Wilderness on the headwaters of the Gila River in southwest New Mexico. The 533-acre (2.16 km 2 ) national monument was established by President Theodore Roosevelt through executive proclamation on November 16, 1907. [ 3 ]

  8. List of Ancestral Puebloan dwellings in Arizona - Wikipedia

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    Cliff dwellings Ruins. Sliding House: Navajo land Ruins located in Canyon de Chelly National Monument. Snaketown: Phoenix: Ruins. Located in the Hohokam Pima National Monument, it is listed as a National Historic Landmark and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Tumamoc Hill: Hohokam Trincheras Ruins. Tusayan: Ruins located in the ...

  9. Navajo National Monument - Wikipedia

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    Navajo National Monument is a national monument located within the northwest portion of the Navajo Nation territory in northern Arizona, which was established to preserve three well-preserved cliff dwellings of the Ancestral Puebloan people: Keet Seel (Broken Pottery) (Kitsʼiil), Betatakin (Ledge House) (Bitátʼahkin), and Inscription House (Tsʼah Biiʼ Kin).