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Mesa Verde National Park: The Cliff Dwellings of the Ancestral Puebloans
We climb into Mesa Verde National Park, created in 1906 to protect human history rather than scenery, home to more than 5,000 archaeological sites and about 600 cliff dwellings. Learn how Cliff Palace, North America's largest cliff dwelling, housed roughly 100 people in 150 rooms and 23 kivas, why the Ancestral Puebloans abandoned it by 1300, and how two ranchers rediscovered it in a snowstorm in 1888. Next time: Joshua Tree National Park.
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