They lived in a range of structures, including pit houses, cliff dwellings, and pueblos, designed so that they could lift entry ladders during enemy attacks, which provided security.

The Ancient Pueblo culture is perhaps best known for the stone and adobe dwellings built along cliff walls, particularly during the Pueblo II and Pueblo III eras.

Throughout the southwest Ancient Puebloan region and at Mesa Verde, the best known site for these large number of well preserved cliff dwellings, housing, defensive and storage complexes were built in shallow caves and under rock overhangs along canyon walls.

In marked contrast to earlier constructions and villages on top of the mesas, the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde reflected a region-wide trend towards the aggregation of growing regional populations into close, highly defensible quarters during the 13th century.

Not all of the people in the region lived in cliff dwellings ; many colonized the canyon rims and slopes in multi-family structures that grew to unprecedented size as populations swelled.

Decorative motifs for these sandstone / mortar constructions, both cliff dwellings and non -, included T-shaped windows and doors.

Pei also drew inspiration from the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings of the Ancient Pueblo Peoples ; he wanted the buildings to exist in harmony with their natural surroundings.

These tools have been important in archaeological dating of timbers of the cliff dwellings of Native Americans in the arid Southwest.

It was the railway which Gustaf Nordenskiöld employed to haul boxcars of relics from the Mesa Verde, Colorado, cliff dwellings, in 1891, en route to the National Museum of Finland.

Image: Ramah_New_Mexico_Ancient_Cliff_Dwellings. jpg | Ancient cliff dwellings in South Ramah

Montezuma Castle is near the top of a Verde Valley cliff and is one of the best preserved cliff dwellings in North America.

Image: Montezuma Castle National Monument1. jpg |< center > The cliff dwellings at Montezuma Castle National Monument

Colorado then pursues MacKenna and Inga up the sheer cliff to the dwellings, where a three-way fight leaves none the worse for wear.

While the trolls who live in the mountains are very wealthy, hoarding mounds of gold and silver in their cliff dwellings, the most dangerous trolls live in lonely huts in the forest.

The Pueblo Jose Montoya brought Adolph Bandelier to visit the area in 1880 ; Bandelier, looking over the cliff dwellings, announced " It is the grandest thing I ever saw.

Although there is no water source on the butte, there are ruins of small cliff dwellings in the higher regions of the butte.

The Hill brothers would take guests on tours to the nearby cliff dwellings.

The cliff contains the ruins of interlinked cave dwellings built in five cliff alcoves by the Mogollon peoples.

People of the Mogollon culture lived in these cliff dwellings from between 1275 and 1300 AD ( Pueblo III Era ), which is the only location that contains Mogollon sites.

Pithouses are found in isolated rural settings, in conjunction with above ground dwellings and adjacent to the large multi-room cliff dwellings characteristic of the region.

Major attractions in addition to the Grand Canyon include the cliff dwellings of Canyon de Chelly, and Meteor Crater.

The TJ Ruin, for example, is a Classic Mimbres phase pueblo, however the cliff dwellings are Tularosa phase.

By now Harmony could see that most of the adults in the train were winded and resting, or else siphoned off from the games by the challenging lure of the great cliff towering above them.

Now, the next morning, they were anchored at The Elbow and the boat was riding directly over the underwater ledge where the green water turned to deepest blue and the cliff dropped straight down 600 fathoms, with the weighted line beside it ; ;

Mug House, a typical cliff dwelling of the period, was home to around 100 people who shared 94 small rooms and eight kivas built right up against each other and sharing many of their walls ; builders in these areas maximized space in any way they could and no areas were considered off-limits to construction.

The beds were deposited at the base of a cliff about 160 m tall, below the depth agitated by waves during storms.

The remains of 25 people were found in a cave at the base of the cliff.

In the first half of 2008, areas of the cliff above the wharf were stabilised from rock falls with netting at a cost of approximately £ 3 million.

The paintings found along the bottom of the cliff are the originals, the American flag and the tee-pee were added in 1929 during the Sullivan Sesquicentennial.

While they knelt, he kicked them off the cliff behind them, where they were eaten by a sea monster ( or, in some versions, a giant turtle ).

The survivors were pushed north to Le Morne des Sauterurs, where rather than surrender they jumped off the cliff to the jagged rocks below.

Although this name may be derived from the nearby Yupik village Enmitahin ( Chukchi for " end of the cliff ") the name appears to refer to Keniskun ( where the traders were ) or perhaps to both villages together.

From the abbey, the Funicular de Sant Joan funicular railway goes up to the top of the mountain, where there are various abandoned hovels in the cliff faces that were previously the abodes of reclusive monks, whilst the Funicular de Santa Cova descends to a shrine.

When they knelt before him, he kicked them over the cliff into the sea, where they were eaten by a monstrous sea turtle.

The most pictographs are on cliff walls above Myers Spring near Dryden, overpainting giving to the theory that several Indian cultures were involved.

The hills were of a moderate height, having flats that extended from them a long way, bordered by a perpendicular rocky cliff next to the sea.

They were carved from the Eagle sandstone cliff by the forces of water and wind.

About 60 of the more than 300 carvings were cut from the basalt cliff face and saved.

Their ships were blown north to the Maeotian Lake ( the Sea of Azov ) onto the shore of Scythia near the cliff region ( today's southeastern Crimea ).

However, injuries that Hayata sustains are not transferred to Ultraman when Hayata activates the Beta Capsule, and Hayata can still be shown as wounded when Ultraman reverses the change, such as one episode when Hayata was knocked off a cliff and injured his left arm, after the fight he was shown with his arm in a sling, another episode had Hayata blinded by a monster attack but his eyes were restored at the end of the episode.

In the words of UNESCO, " The net in which intrepid pilgrims were hoisted up vertically alongside the cliff where the Varlaam monastery dominates the valley symbolizes the fragility of a traditional way of life that is threatened with extinction.

Though visitors were originally allowed inside the folly the area surrounding it has been fenced off due to an instance of suicide off the cliff edge.

Many of the living spaces are in natural cave systems within the cliff walls, but in early Passes when the colonists still had technology, plasma cutters were used to create extended systems and additional caves to meet the needs of the growing numbers of dragons.

Murderers, traitors, perjurors, and larcenous slaves, if convicted by the quaestores parricidii, were flung from the cliff to their deaths.

The cliff was so high and rugged that before the goat had traversed half the distance to the plain below, its limbs were utterly shattered.

The harbour, about which on both sides a sheer cliff runs continuously, and projecting headlands opposite to one another stretch out at the mouth, and the entrance is narrow, ..., and the ships were moored within the hollow harbour, for therein no wave ever swelled, great or small, but all about was a bright calm ......