Inside Long House Mesa Verde (Annotated)

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These places were not easy to get to, nor was farming on the mesa tops easy, and water was always an issue. While living here and adapting worked for thousands of years, decades of drought compelled them to move South and become the pueblo peoples. Long House is nearly equal in size to Cliff Palace with about 150 rooms, 21 kivas, and a row of upper storage rooms. It may have been home to 150 to 175 people. Some of the architectural features in Long House suggest it was also a public place where people from all over Wetherill Mesa gathered to trade or hold community events. https://www.nps.gov/meve/learn/historyculture/cd_long_house.htm