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メサベルデ Mesa Verde National Park
コロラド州南西に位置するアメリカ内務省国立公園局の管理する国立公園の中で唯一の史跡。
Mesa Verde, Spanish for "green table", offers an
unparalleled opportunity to see and experience a unique cultural
and physical landscape. The culture represented at Mesa Verde
reflects more than 700 years of history. From approximately
A.D. 600 through A.D. 1300 people lived and flourished in
communities throughout the area, eventually building elaborate
stone villages in the sheltered alcoves of the canyon walls.
Today most people call these sheltered villages "cliff
dwellings". The cliff dwellings represent the last 75
to 100 years of occupation at Mesa Verde. In the late 1200s
within the span of one or two generations, they left their
homes and moved away.
The archeological sites found in Mesa Verde are some of the
most notable and best preserved in the United States. Mesa
Verde National Park offers visitors a spectacular look into
the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo people. Scientists study
the ancient dwellings of Mesa Verde, in part, by making comparisons
between the Ancestral Pueblo people and their contemporary
indigenous descendants who still live in the Southwest today.
Twenty-four Native American tribes in the southwest have an
ancestral affiliation with the sites at Mesa Verde.
To fully enjoy Mesa Verde National Park, plan to spend a
day or two exploring its world-class archeological sites as
well as its beautiful landscape. The entrance to the park
is 9 miles east of Cortez and 35 miles west of Durango in
Southwestern Colorado on US Highway 160.
[ 近代アメリカ以前の歴史 ]
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