Mesa Verde Cliff Palace
by Bud Simpson
Title
Mesa Verde Cliff Palace
Artist
Bud Simpson
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
Cliff Palace is the ruin of a settlement by Ancestral Puebloans. Constructed in the thirteenth century, probably over a period of twenty years, it may have been a settlement important to regional peoples. It was abandoned by 1300 B.C.E., assumed by many to be due to a series of mega-droughts that made the land unable to support them.
This image was taken in September of 2016. I was fortunate to be able to visit the site at dusk, led by NPS Ranger David Nighteagle. He brought one of the Native American flutes that he built and played in the deepening twilight. The music, echoing off the walls of Cliff Palace, was evocative of the time when Cliff Palace was a thriving community, two hundred years before Columbus.
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December 2nd, 2019
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