The cliff-dwelling Puebloans of the Four Corners mesas, who in their final century withdrew from the mesa tops into great sandstone alcoves and built Cliff Palace and Spruce Tree House into the canyon walls.
A crushing late-13th-century drought and resource crisis drove a total depopulation of the region by ~1300; the people migrated south and east to the Rio Grande and Hopi mesas, where their descendants live today.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Mesa Verde (Ancestral Puebloan) — the shape you scrub through changes in 750 · 1151 · 1281.
A history of the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings and the park that preserves them.
Places the Mesa Verde depopulation within the wider Ancestral Puebloan story (broad context).