cliff-dwelling
Canyon wall residence
Cliff-dwelling describes something that lives or is situated on cliff faces, or relates to the ancient practice of building homes in cliff alcoves.
The Ancestral Puebloans were famous cliff-dwelling people, constructing elaborate structures in canyon walls across the American Southwest.
As a noun, a cliff dwelling is such a structure: We toured the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde.
Communal adobe village
- alcoveRecessed area in room
- sandstoneCemented grain sediment
- adobeSun-dried clay bricks
- kivaPueblo ceremonial chamber
ladder · rooftop · masonry · chamber · granary · courtyard · multistory · defensive
Act of unearthing
- artifactHuman-made historical object
- petroglyphCarved image on stone
- pictographSymbol drawn as image
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
ruins · abandonment · migration · pottery · midden · dating · stratigraphy · survey
pueblo
Communal adobe village
kiva · ladder · rooftop · masonry · chamber · granary · courtyard · multistory · defensive · overhang
swallow
Send down the throat
nesting · crevice · colony · burrow · seabird · rookery · eyrie · ledge · coastal · marine
excavation
Act of unearthing
- artifactHuman-made historical object
- petroglyphCarved image on stone
- pictographSymbol drawn as image
preservation · ruins · abandonment · migration · pottery · midden · dating · stratigraphy · survey · cultural heritage