cliff dweller
High ledge resident
A cliff dweller is someone who lives in a dwelling built into a cliff face or rock overhang.
The term most often refers to the Ancestral Puebloans and other Native American peoples of the American Southwest who constructed elaborate stone communities in canyon walls: The cliff dwellers of Mesa Verde left behind remarkable ruins.
By extension, cliff dweller humorously describes apartment residents in tall urban buildings.
- puebloCommunal adobe village
- Mesa VerdeColorado cliff-dwelling preserve
- Four CornersQuadripoint of southwestern states
- mesaFlat-topped steep-sided elevation
- canyonDeep river-cut gorge
ancient · Anasazi · adobe · kiva · ladder · ruins · sandstone · hand holds · tribe · petroglyph · stone tools · desert · pottery · ceremony · ledge · overhang · rock shelter · shelter
- dwellers
- habitat typesaquatic, terrestrial, arboreal, marine, freshwater
- mountain spiritsoread, mountain giant, mountain troll, volcano god
- rock plantssaxifrage, rockfoil, stonecrop, rock rose
cliff dwellercity dweller
Urban area inhabitant
urbanite · apartment dweller · suburbanite · metropolitan · cosmopolitan
cliff dwellerrustic
Rural and unrefined
villager · homesteader · backwoodsman · hillbilly · country bumpkin
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