Still Watching Over The Valley is a photograph by Christiane Schulze Art And Photography which was uploaded on February 14th, 2023.
Still Watching Over The Valley
Copyright: Christiane Schulze 2022
Mesa Verde National Park is a U.S. National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma... more
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Still Watching Over The Valley
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Christiane Schulze Art And Photography
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Photograph - Photography - Digital Photography - Black And White Photograph
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Copyright: Christiane Schulze 2022
Mesa Verde National Park is a U.S. National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. It is the largest archaeological preserve in the United States. The park was created in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt, to protect some of the best-preserved cliff dwellings in the world, or as he said, "preserve the works of man". As a result, it is the first, and still only, cultural National Park set aside by the National Park System. It occupies 81.4 square miles (211 km2) near the Four Corners and features numerous ruins of homes and villages built by the Ancestral Puebloan people, sometimes called the Anasazi. There are over four thousand archaeological sites and over six hundred cliff dwellings of the Pueblo people at the site.
The Anasazi inhabited Mesa Verde between 600 to 1300, though there is evidence they left before the start of the fifteenth century. They were mainly subsistence farmers, growing crops on nearby mesas. Their primary crop was corn, the major part of their diet. Men were also hunters, which further increased their food supply. The women of the Anasazi are famous for their elegant basket weaving. Anasazi pottery is as famous as their baskets; their artifacts are highly prized. The Anasazi kept no written records.
By the year 750, the people were building mesa-top villages made of adobe. In the late 1190s, they began to build the cliff dwellings for which Mesa Verde is famous.
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Christiane Schulze Art And Photography
Thank you very much for featuring my work in the Group A Tree or Trees in Black and White Calvin...........................much appreciated
Calvin Boyer
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