Navajo Canyon
the Navajo Canyon is part of Chapin Mesa .Top photos chosen by u all:
The Kiva
Made by sgplewka
Kiva is a Hopi word for ceremonial room. The kivas at Mesa Verde were underground chambers that may be compared to churches of later times. Based upon modern Pueblo practice, Ancestral Puebloans may have used these rooms to conduct healing rites or to pray for rain, luck in hunting, or good crops. Kivas also served as gathering places, and sometimes as a place to weave. A roof of beams and mud covered each kiva, supported by pilasters. Acces was by ladder through a hole in the center of the roof. The small hole in the floor is a sipapu, the symbolic entrance to the underworld.
Cliff Palace
Made by jpmckenna
View of the Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde National Park. A gret view from the viewpoint down into Cliff Palace. Amzingly complex with hundreds of rooms and multiple levels, the complexes at Mesa Verde are amazing for the remoteness and their seemingly inaccessability from the canyon floor.
orange flower
Made by harkni
Some kind of wildflower blooming in late May in Mesa Verde National Park. Any ideas what it might be?
mesa verde anasazi building
Made by jgholmes2000
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Spruce Tree House
Made by sgplewka
Nearest places of interest:
| Shiprock, New Mexico Four Corners Monument Chapin Mesa Museum BM 6929 | Spruce Canyon Far View Sites Whetherill Mesa Cortez, CO |
