The Indian Era at Mesa Verde

When visiting Mesa Verde National Park, you find yourself taken in with a mystical feeling of a time almost forgotten. The park, located in southwestern Colorado, is the setting of a silent stone city, ten ruins built into protective seven-hundred-foot cliffs that housed hundreds of people from the pre-Columbian era to the end of the thirteenth century. If you visit the park, you’ll enjoy its architecture and history more if you know a little …

…there numerous innovations, the Mesa Verdeans life was still simple. They had no system of writing, no wheel, and no metal. The cliff dwellings became ghost towns near the end of the thirteenth century. Archeologists aren’t sure why they left, but they hypothesize that a drought my have driven them south into New Mexico and Arizona. Learning about the Mesa Verdean people provides a deep appreciation for the cliff palaces in the nation park.