History Ruins

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What is a ruin? We’re running off of “You know it when you see it” at the moment. Ruins should be non-functioning structures of some age, or their function reduced to tourism and the like.

Generally speaking, specific items from a ruin should go to [email protected]

Illustrations of ruins (or their reconstructions) should go to [email protected]

Photos of ruins back when they were functioning should go to [email protected]

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Puye Cliff Dwellings, New Mexico, USA (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puye_Cliff_Dwellings

The cliff dwellings held about 740 rooms and ruins at the base of the cliff that likely held additional dwellings.

Wow!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There is also the Gila Cliff Dwellings. The are connected to the puebloean people, named as such by the Spaniards because they lived in "pueblos", meaning towns/villages