Cedar Mesa is a broad tableland in southeastern Utah, rising well above the surrounding country and shaped by erosion into dramatic edges, cliffs, and deeply cut canyons. Its landscape includes drainages toward Comb Wash, the San Juan River, Grand Gulch, and nearby canyon country features such as the Valley of the Gods and Cedar and Muley Points. The mesa is also a major archaeological landscape, with Ancient Puebloan cliff dwellings in several canyons and evidence of much earlier human presence. Clovis hunters were here as early as 13,000 years ago, and the Lime Ridge Clovis Site is among Utah’s oldest known sites with Clovis tools. Most of the mesa now lies within Bears Ears National Monument.