Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde

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Cliff Palice is in Mesa Verde National Monument in Clolorado USA. Daily tours are given thru the warmer season. “Tree-ring dating indicates that construction and refurbishing of Cliff Palace was continuous approximately from 1190 CE through 1260 CE, although the major portion of the building was done within a 20-year time span. The Ancestral Puebloans who constructed this cliff dwelling and the others like it at Mesa Verde were driven to these defensible positions by “increasing competition amidst changing climatic conditions”.[1] Cliff Palace was abandoned by 1300, and while debate remains as to the causes of this, some believe that a series of megadroughts interrupting food production systems is the main cause. Cliff Palace was rediscovered in 1888 by Richard Wetherill and Charlie Mason while out looking for stray cattle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Palace Created in RealityCapture from 531 images