and modern Pueblo tribes in the Southwest consider themselves descendants of these ancestral people. Some 40 pueblos and cliff dwellings are visible from park roads and overlooks; some of these ...

When I stepped onto the trail at Bandelier National Monument, I couldn’t help but envision the Ancestral Pueblo people walking along a similar path. I’d seen pictures of cliff dwellings before ...

Mesa Verde's cliff dwellings are a little crumbly in places ... it's easy to imagine the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo Indians who built these cliff houses 800 years ago. Ancestral Puebloans ...

Today, descendants of these Pueblo people, such as the Taos and Zuni tribes, maintain traditional lifestyles while also adapting to modern influences, particularly in art and jewelry making.

At Bears Ears National Monument, a crew of young men from the Pueblo of Zuni is caring for the cliff dwellings their ancestors built 800 years ago. “Uh-oh, I shouldn’t have looked down,” said Darian ...

The Pueblo settled in the region about 1,400 years ago and built cliff dwellings using sandstone and wooden beams. Mesa Verde is home to the Cliff Palace. It’s the largest such dwelling in North ...