Early pioneers discovered that they were not the first settlers in the area when they found ancient cliff dwellings tucked into ledges beneath the rim of the canyon.

Navajo National Monument in Arizona offers guided hikes to Betatakin and Keet Seel, two of the best preserved cliff dwellings open to the public. News Today's news ...

Navajo National Monument in Arizona offers guided hikes to Betatakin and Keet Seel, two of the best preserved cliff dwellings open to the public. Local Sports Things To Do Politics Travel ...

Cliff dwellings, photo tours and more at Tonto National Monument. ... Turn left on Arizona 188 and go 25 miles northwest to the signed entrance. Admission: $3, free for age 15 and younger.

Mesa Verde's cliff dwellings are a little crumbly in places, ... corn and beans on the mesa and lived in simpler pit houses as early as A.D. 600. They began building cliff houses in the 1200s: ...

Seen from the air, the structure is a D-shape, perched on the lip of a mesa that overlooks the famous “Cliff Palace” dwelling at Mesa Verde National Park. Scientists call it the Sun Temple.

Researchers say they have found a new clue into the mysterious exodus of ancient cliff-dwelling people from the Mesa Verde area of Colorado more than 700 years ago: DNA from the bones of ...

Indeed, they lived in the cliff dwellings for only about the last 75 to 100 years of their occupation of Mesa Verde. Early archaeologists guessed warfare, and the evidence for this seems to concur.