Mesa Verde is Spanish for Green Table. As the name implies, the mesa is lush with vegetation relative to the sparse country surrounding it. Because of the favorable climate and soil, Ancestral Puebloans, also know as the Anasazi, inhabited the mesa for about 700 years. Today archeologists are studying the over 4700 sites on the mesa.
Ranger Lee helped us understand a few of the archeological sites on Mesa Verde.
Kiva: an underground or partially underground chamber used for ceremonies or councils.
