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Cliff Palace and the Ancestral Puebloans

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Five different room counts for Cliff Palace go head to head here, from Nordenskiold's 1891 map to the park service's current total, and the class has to explain why counting the same rooms kept producing different numbers. Works solo, in pairs, or as a station.

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