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<< Other Photo Pages >> Gila Cliff Dwellings - Ancient Village or Settlement in United States in The Southwest

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Multi-periodSite Name: Gila Cliff Dwellings
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 95.793 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The Southwest Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Albuquerque  Nearest Village: Silver City, NM
Latitude: 33.230000N  Longitude: 108.265W
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Gila Cliff Dwellings
Gila Cliff Dwellings submitted by durhamnature : Old photo, from "1904 Smithsonian Report" via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Village or Settlement in Catron County, New Mexico.
The Gila Cliff Dwellings are a group of stone cobble ruins of around 50 rooms are set into five separate caves within a cliff face. The ruins are attributed to the Mogollon culture (Mimbres branch or subgroup) and are dated to 1275 through 1300 AD. The ruins have been dated by core drilling wooden support beams used for door and windows, attribution of artifacts, and carbon dating.

From tree ring dating, the structures were built and occupied within a very short period; as little as 11 years.

Like the architecture of Ancestral Puebloan people farther north, Mongollon structures began with Pithouses, and later developments were surface pueblos and cliff dwellings. The Gila Cliff Dwellings were rediscovered in the modern era in the 1870's but were not protected by inclusion in the national park system until 1933. Their remote location and relatively small size compared to large, complex sites like those at Mesa Verde and Chaco culture sites resulted in few scientific or protective resources being applied until the 1950's and 1960's. Before this period the site had been extensively looted and vandalized.

These resulting depredations resulted in relatively little archaeological study compared to simply trying to preserve the structures. The only substantial modern publication on the archaeology of the site is The Archaeology of Gila Cliff Dwellings, 1987.

Today's visitor to the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument may see a small museum at a Visitor's Center before walking a mile long trail to the cliff dwellings.

Today the site is within the Gila National Wilderness. It is a National Register of Historic Places site (#66000472):
Historic Significance: Information Potential, Architecture/Engineering
Area of Significance: Architecture, Prehistoric, Historic - Aboriginal
Cultural Affiliation: Archaic--Classic Mimbres
Historic Sub-function: Multiple Dwelling, Village Site


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