Time of Transition

What had once been a medium-sized pueblo village was one of the last mesa top pueblos built on Mesa Verde. Its tower and kiva were central to the community and were surrounded by at least 30 rooms. The village was inhabited for less than two generations before its residents moved into the cliff dwellings, probably taking most of the stone blocks and wooden timbers with them for new villages built in the alcoves. Other neighboring mesa top communities from this time included Far View House and Pipe Shrine House. In the broader sequence of this history, semi-nomadic lifeways were followed by pithouses, then single-story villages, then multi-story villages, then cliff dwellings and late mesa top villages, and finally migration.

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