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The most spectacular cliff dwellings are the compact, masonry-walled communal habitations, or pueblos, that often completely fill the cliffs in which they are located. They were built by the Anasazi, the prehistoric ancestors of the present Pueblo Indians, and date from about a.d. 900 to about 1450.
âMany of the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde are small, only one or two rooms built in alcoves or shallow caves,â writes archaeologist Larry Nordby in a chapter of the book The Conservation of Decorated Surfaces on Earthen Architecture (J. Paul Getty Trust, 2006).