| Mesa Verde is located in North America, 16 km east | | | | the findings and artwork they found in the cave |
| of Cortez in Colorado. The area is Spanish for 'green | | | | dwellings in the Chapin Archaeological Museum. You |
| table', because it's covered with flat trees which make | | | | can also visit Balcony House, Spruce Tree House and |
| it look like a geological formation. The more than 4,000 | | | | Cliff Palace or see the mesa-top ruins, including the |
| locations dating from 600 to 1300 AD form a large | | | | Cedar Tree Tower, the Sun Temple and the Far View |
| archeological area which includes the imposing cliff | | | | Complex. On Wetherill Mesa you will find the Badger |
| dwellings in the south-west. | | | | House Community. |
| Cave Houses | | | | Canyons of the Ancient |
| In the thirteenth century the inhabitants of Mesa Verde, | | | | Next to Mesa Verde National Park is Ute Mountain |
| the Anasazi, built their houses in the shallow caves of | | | | Park. This site was reserved by the Ute Mountain |
| the Four Corners. Almost 100 years later they already | | | | Tribe to save its heritage. Here you can admire old |
| abandoned the cave houses. Charles Mason and is | | | | wall paintings and petroglyphs and hundreds off the |
| brother-in-law Richard Wetherill discovered the caves | | | | complex cave dwellings comparable to those in Mesa |
| more than 500 years later, in 1888. In 1906 a Denver | | | | Verde. Canyons of the Ancients claim to be the |
| newspaper finally awakened national interest and the | | | | highest density of archaeological sites in North |
| site became a national park. Unfortunately many | | | | America. It's one of the country's newest national |
| artifacts were plundered by that time. | | | | monuments, create3d in June 2000 and you will find |
| Archaeological Museum | | | | the remains of 700 to 10,000 years old cliff dwellings, |
| You can still learn a lot about the Anasazi civilization by | | | | petroglyphs, sweat lodges and villages. |