cliff-dweller
Lives on precipices
A cliff-dweller is someone who lives in a dwelling built into a cliff face, particularly the Ancestral Puebloans who constructed elaborate stone communities in the canyon walls of the American Southwest.
The term extends figuratively to residents of tall urban apartment buildings: The Manhattan cliff-dwellers rarely ventured below the twentieth floor.
Ancient Southwestern cliff-dwelling people
- Mesa VerdeColorado cliff-dwelling preserve
- alcoveRecessed area in room
- sandstoneCemented grain sediment
- ruinComplete destruction or collapse
petroglyph · kiva · granary · handhold · toehold · ladder · pottery · pictograph
Anasazi
Ancient Southwestern cliff-dwelling people
- Mesa VerdeColorado cliff-dwelling preserve
- alcoveRecessed area in room
- sandstoneCemented grain sediment
ruin · petroglyph · kiva · granary · handhold · toehold · ladder · pottery · pictograph · archaeology
swallow
Send down the throat
nesting · ledge · crevice · eyrie · colony · burrow · puffin · guillemot · kittiwake · seabird
apartment
Rented unit in building
- high-riseMultistory tall building
- skyscraperVery tall urban building
- penthouseTop-floor luxury apartment
tenant · elevator · city · balcony · view · concrete · metropolitan · tower · condo · rental