悬崖生活

Living on a Cliff

美国科罗拉多州的梅萨维德国家公园有很多悬崖屋,那里曾经有人居住过,如今建在悬崖里。表面上看不可能进得去。那么谁曾住过那里呢?为什么他们会住在那里呢?有一群人生活在那里大概有800年了。美国人称他们为古吉普韦布洛人。他们在位于悬崖顶处平坦的平顶山上种植食物。他们还在平顶山上饲养动物,互相交易。为什么他们不把房屋建在平顶山上呢?

Mesa Verde National Park,in Colorado,America,has many“cliff1 dwellings 2”,places that are built into cliffs where people once lived.They look almost impossible to get to.Who lived in them,and why did they live there?People lived there about 800 years ago.Americans call them the Ancestral Puebloans.They grew food on the mesa3,the flat land on top of the cliffs.