Cliff Dwelling Pictures, Images and Stock Photos

The cliff dwelling of Ancient Pueblo in Mesa Verde National Park of Colorado, southwest USA. The Cliff Palace features various adobe building structures on the face of the cliff in Mesa Verde National Park with living quarters, community space, storage areas, and spiritual kivas, beautifully conceived architectural were built by the ancient Pueblo tribes.

Mesa Verde is a National Park in southern Colorado and UNESCO World Heritage Site. The site is renown for the numerous Pueblo people villages and ruins. One of the best known is the spectacular cliff dwelling of Cliff Palace, thought to be the largest cliff dwelling in North America. No one knows why these settlements were abandoned after a relatively short period of habitation.

Anasazi Native American cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

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Manitou Cliff Dwellings near Colorado Springs in USA

Set of southwestern desert icons. Each icon is grouped and organized on a named layer.

the homestead of troglodytes forged in the rock near Saumur

Mesa Verde National Park - Wetherill Mesa - Long House View Into the Past

The Ksar Ouled Debbab is a village of about 1,000 inhabitants in the delegation Tataouine South in Tataouine Governorate in southern Tunisia. In the old town is one of the most impressive castles storage (ksour) of the country. Quarrystones and clay built Ksar consisting superposed from a closed courtyard with two floors and vaulted storage chambers (ghorfas). The chambers were used as storerooms for stocks (cereals, oil, dried beans, lentils, dates, etc.) and other belongings kind (household and work tools, weapons) for the semi-nomadic (transhumance) families living situation.

The Cliff Palace, one of the largest and most famous cliff dwelling site of the ancient pueblo tribe in the Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, USA. The complex adobe cliff architecture was built by the southwest American ancient Pueblo, featuring housing, worship sites, storage and community space.

Cliff Palace cave dwelling, Mesa Verde national park, Colorado, United States of America (USA).

Color landscape photograph of one of the remaining Pueblo cliff dwellings in the side of a cliff within Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado surrounded by thick lush foliage growing in the cliffs.

Matera, Basilicata, Italy: interior of an old cave house carved into the tufa rock in the old town (sassi di Matera)

A female teenager climbs the 32 foot ladder to access Balcony House ruin, an Ancient Puebloan (Anasazi) cliff dwelling that was inhabited until the 13th century, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, USA

Matmata is a small Berber speaking town in southern Tunisia. Some of the local Berber residents live in traditional underground "troglodyte" structures. The structures typical for the village are created by digging a large pit in the ground.

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The cliff dwelling of Ancient Pueblo in Mesa Verde National Park of Colorado, southwest USA. The cliff Pueblo dwelling features various adobe building structures on the face of the cliff in Mesa Verde National Park with living quarters, community space, storage areas, and spiritual kivas, beautifully conceived architectural were built by the ancient Pueblo tribes.

Perce rock is a huge sheer rock formation in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence on the tip of the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec, Canada, off Perce Bay.

Village near Matmata. This village has been rebuilt, respecting ancient atmosphere and can be visited by tourists now.

Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde

the homestead of troglodytes forged in the rock near Saumur

Cliff Dwelling in a Canyon Wall at the Square Tower House in Mesa Verde National Park

The cliff dwelling of Ancient Pueblo in Mesa Verde National Park of Colorado, United States

The Puye Cliff Dwellings are the ruins of an abandoned pueblo, located in Santa Clara Canyon on Santa Clara Pueblo land near Española, New Mexico.

An ancient Anasazi Indian tower in the ruins at Manitou Cliff Dwellings in Manitou Springs, CO.

Sassi of Matera, landscape

Montezuma's Castle National Monument cliff dwelling ruins, located near Camp Verde, Arizona, USA.

Exterior of Manitou Cliff Dwelling, Manitou Springs, Colorado, USA

Young boy looking down of the fanous Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. American Sountwest.

A panoramic image of Cliff Palace, a cliff dwelling at Mesa Verde national Park.

Deep Kiva Example At Long House In Mesa Verde National Park

Hasankeyf was an ancient town and district located along the Tigris River in the Batman Province in southeastern in Turkey.

"A view of the white cliffs of Southern England.The Seven Sisters white cliffs with coast guard cottagesSussex, England"

San Francisco, United States - October 7, 2011: People walk around Cliff House overlooking the Pacific at Ocean Beach. A giant camera observation area can be seen on the left.

Cliff Palace architecture of the Pueblo civilization, Mesa Verde national park, Colorado, United States of America (USA).

Cave Dwellings and a wooden stair at Bandelier New Mexico near Santa Fe

Mesa Verde is a National Park in southern Colorado renown for its Indian Cliff Dwellings. Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in North America. The holes with ladders are kivas, underground chambers used for ceremonies and meetings.

Puye Cliff Dwellings and caves are ruins where ancient pueblo people, called Anasazi, lived who are ancestors of the modern day Santa Clara people, New Mexico, USA

Talus Houses Cliff Dwellings at Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico, USA.

Images of the cliff dwellings built by Ancestral Pueblo people in Mesa Verde National Park

Taken at Mesa Verde National Park, near Cortez, Colorado.

Art at Carricola

Perce rock is a huge sheer rock formation in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence on the tip of the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec, Canada.

Square Tower House, the tallest cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde, illuminated for only the 2nd time during the Luminaria Festival in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.

Montezuma's Castle National Monument cliff dwelling ruins, located near Camp Verde, Arizona, USA.

Matera, Basilicata, Italy: landscape at sunset of the old town (sassi di Matera) with the rock church Santa Maria de Idris

Long House Ruins in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, USA.

House wren feeds bug to baby birds in backyard birdhouse

A pueblo cliff dwelling in the Montezuma Castle National Monument was home to the Sinagua people over 600 years ago.