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Post by librarylady on Aug 13, 2024 20:39:27 GMT
We saw Mesa Verde but didn't visit the Manitou cliff dwellings.
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Post by KiwiJo on Aug 13, 2024 20:58:37 GMT
Oh cool! I love the concept of a replica like that so that people can be up close, even go inside, and get an idea of what it was like to live there all those years ago.
The only bit I side-eye though, is that apparently many visitors leave being confused about whether what they saw was real or not. I think it should be very clearly shown, all over the site, that it is a replica. Not only so that visitors realise that, but also so that they can fully understand that the real sites must be preserved; and allowing them to fully explore a replica helps preserve the original, real site.
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snyder
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Post by snyder on Aug 13, 2024 21:08:14 GMT
Oh cool! I love the concept of a replica like that so that people can be up close, even go inside, and get an idea of what it was like to live there all those years ago. The only bit I side-eye though, is that apparently many visitors leave being confused about whether what they saw was real or not. I think it should be very clearly shown, all over the site, that it is a replica. Not only so that visitors realise that, but also so that they can fully understand that the real sites must be preserved; and allowing them to fully explore a replica helps preserve the original, real site. I have lived all my life approximately 10 miles from the Manitou Cliff Dwellings. Tthis is the first time hearing about this. I have often wondered about fake dwellings. I have been to others and they just don't seem authentic to me and now, I believe not only these are replicas, but many others are as well.
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Post by cjinmo on Aug 13, 2024 23:15:12 GMT
So funny. I researched this today while scrapbooking pictures from a vacation in 1987. I didn’t realize these were replicas at the time of the visit.
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Post by Scrapper100 on Aug 14, 2024 0:56:03 GMT
Reading this it makes me think that kids might think it’s ok to do this at other sites. I think it sounds like it’s not obvious that these are replicas. I like the idea so as to preserve the other ones but don’t want kids to not respect the real ones.
We visited Mesa Verde and ton of other sites in Arizona and New Mexico. I also loved Chaco Canyon not cliff dwellings but there is just something special about the site. I think the fact that it is harder to reach helps to preserve it. I’m glad to see that they haven’t paved the roads. The roads are not for the faint of heart. I haven’t been in about 30+ years snd I need to go back.
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Post by iteach3rdgrade on Aug 14, 2024 5:12:13 GMT
I need to look at some childhood photos. I remember pictures standing near and inside cliff dwellings. I was around 4 years old and I always thought people really lived in them. I wonder if this was in Colorado. Interesting.
I also remember seeing the Stonehenge replica. Of course at 4, I thought it was the real one.
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Post by gramasue on Aug 14, 2024 13:07:55 GMT
That is fascinating, replica or not. I wonder whether the original ones had hand railings on the stairs, or if modern building codes required them because of the crowds of people who would be climbing them.
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Post by melanell on Aug 14, 2024 13:16:00 GMT
This is one of those things, that now, as time has marched on, becomes interesting in two ways--first in the way in which it was intended, but then secondly, that this idea was implemented and still exists 100+ years later.
It reminds me of when I read older books to my kids, set in the time in which they were published, and beyond the interest of the plot, is the interest in the time in which the book was set, too.
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