Cliff Palace was part of the large village of Mesa Verde. The people who lived in Mesa Verde are known as Ancestral Puebloans, sometimes called the Anasazi. Ancestral Puebloans lived in Cliff Palace in the s, long before Columbus and other Europeans reached the Americas.

Cliff Palace doorways. Many visitors look at the size of the doorways in Cliff Palace and other cliff dwellings and wonder about the size of the people who once lived here. An average man was about 5'4" to 5'5" ( cm) tall, while an average woman was 5' to 5'1" ( cm).

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The ruined site of the old Summer Palace offers an ideal place to make this point. China is also focusing increasingly on all the art that was looted by French and British forces - and taken to.

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