Cliff Dwelling

A photographer friend, Marty Stupich, had taken pictures of the cliff from an airplane and enlarged them in a five-foot-long photograph on which I could mark the nests of cliff-dwelling birds. ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)

So, some of the cliff-dwelling ruins at Mesa Verde, or similar sites, were used for religious purposes. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

Notable plant species include tree ferns (Angiopteris evecta) with 9-meter-wide canopies in Moorean valleys and a scandent cliff-dwelling Metrosideros sp. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The beautiful cliff-dwelling in the picture above is Montezuma's Castle. ❋ Unknown (2006)

This is Montezuma's Well, about four miles away from the cliff-dwelling. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It is part of a settlement complex in a small valley that included another cliff-dwelling unfortunately destroyed and pithouse dwellings on the valley floor. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Kelly and Larson have investigated strip bark in cliff-dwelling cedars and attribute the strip bark form to the killing of parts of the root system by mechanical erosion of the cliffs. ❋ Unknown (2005)

So as they cast down the old history of their cliff-dwelling ancestors, they seem determined to ensure that that heritage will stand the test of time. ❋ Unknown (2005)

So as they past down the oral history of their cliff-dwelling ancestors, they seemed determined to ensure their heritage will stand the test of time. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Among her responsibilities was leading half-day tours to the Betatakin Ruin, an Ancestral Pueblo cliff-dwelling. ❋ Unknown (2005)

In our lengthy discussion with them, (I think that they said) that cliff-dewlling cedars grew very slowly both when they were old and young (and this is one of the reasons for longevity) and that growth pulses in cliff-dwelling cedars tended to occur when they were “mining” little pockets of nutrients that came their way from time to time. ❋ Unknown (2005)

For their cliff-dwelling cedars, they attribute the killing of parts of the root system to purely mechanical causes – erosion of the cliffs exposing roots and killing them. ❋ Unknown (2005)

It looked somewhat like an ancient Pueblo cliff-dwelling, yet that wasn't my first impression. ❋ Unknown (2004)

From the looks of it, the cliff-dwelling could have been honeycombed with dozens of passageways, all of which were so small that we'd have to bend double just to get through the largest of them. ❋ Unknown (2004)

jill [donned] a sheep suit and got [a cliff] dwelling you were really white [knuckled] during that cliff dwelling ❋ B_dk (2009)