2019 four corners – part 15, Colorado: Mesa Verde’s other cliff dwellings
On a drive around the rim the afternoon after hiking to Cliff Palace, we ran across these views of other cliff dwellings. So before going back into a museum to...
2019 four corners – part 16, Colorado: Mesa Verde’s 1930s dioramas
The museum on Mesa Top was a real highlight of our visit to Mesa Verde National Park since it gave us such an in-depth look at those who had lived...
2019 four corners – part 17, Colorado: Mesa Verde jewelry, pottery, and the yucca plant
We’ve already looked at the transition from pithouses to kivas and the dioramas at the Archeological Museum on Mesa Top, but today we’re going to look at the Pueblo people’s...
2019 four corners – part 18, Colorado: Mesa Verde’s pithouse to pueblo
The national park offers a couple of drives on the mesas and has done a wonderful job of showing us actual pithouse locations and how they changed over 600 years....
2019 four corners – part 19, Colorado: Mesa Verde’s Far View sites, last ranger talk, observations
While this is our last afternoon at Mesa Verde, this post covers a period of time from AD 800 – 1200 when people were living on top of the mesa,...