The Puye Cliff Dwellings are the ruins of an abandoned pueblo, located in Santa Clara Canyon on Santa Clara Pueblo land near Espanola, New Mexico. The site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1966.
The site was home to some 1500 pueblo Indians from about the 12th century until 1577 when drought finally forced the villagers to leave for locations nearer to the Rio Grande. Oral tradition suggests that the present day inhabitants of Santa Clara Pueblo, some 10 miles (16 km) to the east, are the descendants of Puye.
The dwellings are remarkable for being carved out of a 200 ft (61 m) high (60 m), cliff ridge formed from volcanic tuff. The rock is relatively soft and can be excavated using wooden tools. Some 740 rooms are carved out of the cliff, although foundations show that additional houses constructed from talus blocks lined the base of the cliff. In fact it seem likely that many of these houses grew to be several stories high and the cave rooms were then just the back rooms of these homes.
Along with the cave rooms, lines of post holes are carved into the cliff face. These would have supported roof beams for the block house and may also be anchor points for wood ladders and walkways used to reach the cliff houses. There are also about a dozen stairways, more like ladders of foot and hand holds, that lead to the top of the cliff. Many of the stairways lead up to the large 'Community House' which has been partly reconstructed on the top of the cliff.
有点类似我们的窑洞吧?
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等不及了! --- |
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新墨西哥有许多这样的遗址。 洞里面应该是空荡荡的了吧,没法按现在的生活方式住人 了 --- |
你知道俺家住那呀? --- |
俺那天实在是没时间了,俺答应给他们做晚饭,外加另外的两个朋友。再晚了,俺根本做不熟饭了 --- |
NM能住人的地方,就那些,不多 不过我说的“你这里”,是你帖子中的那个位置,Española 附近 --- |
反正俺也没看清楚 --- |
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俺想爬梯子上去看看。 海棠MM长周末愉快! --- |
问好海棠MM,谢谢分享! |
我们一起爬上去看看。上面好像有个遗址。 --- |
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