Explore: Cliff Dwellings

In archaeology, cliff dwellings are dwellings formed by using niches or caves in high cliffs, and sometimes with excavation or additions in the way of

rabbits. The Puye Cliffs complex includes two levels of cliff-dwellings and both surface and cave dwellings. The two levels of cliff dwellings, the mesa top

Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument is a U.S. National Monument created to protect Mogollon cliff dwellings in the Gila Wilderness on the headwaters

The Manitou Cliff Dwellings are a privately owned tourist attraction consisting of fake Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings and interpretive exhibits located

Salado used mud and rocks to construct multistory dwellings, or pueblos. The Lower Cliff Dwelling consisted of sixteen rooms on the ground floor, three

site. Cliff dwellings of the Sinaguas Montezuma Well is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, reference #66000082. Cliff dwellings of the

Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in North America. The structure built by the Ancestral Puebloans is located in Mesa Verde National Park in their

dispersed farmsteads into community centers at pueblos canyon heads or cliff dwellings on canyon shelves. Population peaked between 1200 and 1250 to more

T-shaped windows and doors emerged for both surface and cliff dwellings. Cliff dwellings were built in shallow caves and under rock overhangs along canyon

table mountain") is best known for structures such as Cliff Palace, one of the largest cliff dwellings in North America. Starting c. 7500 BC Mesa Verde was