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Southwest architecture Adobe buildings of Taos Pueblo in New Mexico with a rounded adobe baking oven in the foreground and two people sitting on a rooftop ladder. Mountains are visible in the background. Ancient stone dwellings of Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde, Colorado, show multistory rooms, round kivas, and towers built into a cliff alcove.
The intricate cliff dwellings of Ancestral Puebloans
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The intricate cliff dwellings of Ancestral Puebloans
Cliff dwellings were used during the Pueblo III period (c. 1150–1300 ce)...
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The Cliff Palace, which has 150 rooms, 23 kivas, and several towers, at Mesa Verde...
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Taos Pueblo, N.M., with domed oven in the foreground.
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Cliff dwellings of Anasazi culture
Multistory cliff dwellings of Anasazi culture, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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