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Brian Vauter > Long House, Mesa Verde National Park, CO The ladders are modern versions of what the Ancestral Puebloans used to gain entry to the different levels within the dwelling. Today, the guided tour uses these ladders to move through the structures.
Brian Vauter > Spruce Tree House, Mesa Verde National Park, CO This is the first courtyard with Spruce Tree House. The wall at the back has 20 rooms behind it split over three stories. Each room measures about 6 x 8 x 5-1/2 feet and likely had one or two people living in it. The holes with sticks in them on the courtyard floor lead down into two of the eight kivas. Kivas were special rooms used for ceremonial purposes.
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Brian Vauter > Panoramic, Sun Point View, Mesa Verde National Park, CO In this somewhat overexposed view, you are looking up two canyons. With the original-sized image, you can make out a number of cliff dwellings. The dwelling to the center right of the image is Cliff Palace, the largest of the dwellings in the park. Notice the people standing in the sunny part of the upper cliff for scale. Directly in the center, and on top of the ridge, is Sun Temple.
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