Mesa Verde National Park, located in Southwestern Colorado, is an amazing link to the past and a peek into the lives of the Ancestral Puebloans who lived there. This park was established in 1906 to "preserve the works of man." The work continues today with over 4,700 archaeological sites being studied and preserved.
In the photo below you can see a column of indentations, known as hand and foot holds, these are the "stairs" from one level to the next in the cliff dwellings.
The park is famous for the 600 cliff dwellings in the area but there are numerous mesa top sites as well. Current archeological work is being done throughout the park, (above) they are excavating and cataloguing the ruins at The Far View complex. It is believed that the Ancestral Puebloans lived at Far View for 200 years before the building of the cliff dwellings and continued occupying it after as well.
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