Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, USA: it is the largest of about 4000 preserved Cliff Dwellings (circa 800 years old) built by ancient Pueblo
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Mesa Verde National Park

Some 600 cliff dwellings in Colorado's canyon walls, built and then left within a few generations.

Starting c. 7500 BCE Mesa Verde was seasonally inhabited by a group of nomadic…

Why they moved is debated: drought, conflict or both?

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