Ranger Meyer at Mesa Verde National Park informed the guided tour group that the Ancient Ones who lived in Mesa Verde numbered around 4,500 and that only about a quarter of them lived in the cliff alcoves during the 13th century. It was a peaceful, prosperous, matrilineal society. They left around 1300, because it was time. The Ancestral Puebloans are no longer called the Anasazi, which has nagative connotations in the Navajo language. Spruce Tree House is the third largest cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde.
Ranger Meyer at Mesa Verde National Park informed the guided tour group that the Ancient Ones who lived in Mesa Verde numbered around 4,500 and that only about a quarter of them lived in the cliff alcoves during the 13th century. It was a peaceful, prosperous, matrilineal society. They left around 1300, because it was time. The Ancestral Puebloans are no longer called the Anasazi, which has nagative connotations in the Navajo language. Spruce Tree House is the third largest cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde.