Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park: Cliff Palace

"Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park: Cliff Palace" by Jesse Walter Fewkes is an early 20th-century scientific book, that dives deep into the archaeological unearthing, fixing, and importance of Cliff Palace, a well-known ancient home built into a cliff in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. It explains the building styles, the things left behind, and the way of life of the people who used to live there. The book starts by explaining why Fewkes started his research in 1909, after being chosen by the Smithsonian Institution to lead the digging and fixing of Cliff Palace. He thought it was important to fix the ruins so people could learn from them and be interested in them. Fewkes and his crew wanted to learn more about the people who lived in the cliffs and add to what people already knew about old cultures in the Southwest. Fewkes believed that more digging could teach us even more about the ancient people of Cliff Palace.