“Mesa Verde Cliff Dwellings”

Written By Emily Su

“Mesa Verde Cliff Dwellings”

  • Pueblo people, descendants are Hopi and Zuni (Anasazi tribe)

  • 450-1300 CE Montezuma, county, Colorado

  • Material: sandstone, geometric designs on murals, indigenous NA. 

Context: living in communities, harmonizes with landscape for functional reasons, summer sun doesn't hit the pueblos, but winter light warms it. Painted murals.

Function: residential places, storage places, ritual places, Kiva (communal gathering), ritual purpose for men. 


Emily Su
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