Cliff Palace Side View
by Catherine Sherman
Title
Cliff Palace Side View
Artist
Catherine Sherman
Medium
Photograph - Photography Digitally Enhanced
Description
"Cliff Palace Side View" by Catherine Sherman.
Here is a side view of Cliff Palace, the largest cliff dwelling in North America. The structure built by the Ancestral Puebloans is located in Mesa Verde National Park in their former homeland region. The cliff dwelling and park are in the southwestern corner of Colorado, in the Southwestern United States. Cliff Palace contains 23 kivas (round sunken rooms of ceremonial importance), and 150 rooms and had a population of about 100 people.
Cliff Palace was constructed primarily out of sandstone, mortar and wooden beams. The sandstone was shaped using harder stones, and a mortar of soil, water and ash was used to hold everything together.
Tree ring dating indicates that construction and refurbishing of Cliff Palace was continuous from around 1190 through 1260, although the major portion of the building was done within a twenty-year time span.
Featured in "Everything Southwestern" group (08/10/2015); "3 a day AAA Images" group (08/10/2015); "The Artistic Photographer" group (09/04/2015); "Artwork Manipulated Digitally" group (09/26/2015); "Premium FAA Artists" group (09/30/2015); "Images That Excite You" group (09/04/2015); "Go Take a Hike" group (08/19/2022)
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August 8th, 2015
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Comments (9)
Larry Kniskern
Congratulations, Catherine – your rock art or ruins has been featured by the Go Take a Hike Photography Group! Feel free to add it to the 2022 Featured Images thread in the group discussion board for archive.
John Bailey
Congratulations on being featured in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"