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Definition of Cliff dweller
1. Noun. A member of the Anasazi people living in the southwestern United States who built rock or adobe dwellings on ledges in the sides of caves.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cliff Dweller
Literary usage of Cliff dweller
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Archeological Explorations in Northeastern Arizona by Alfred Vincent Kidder, Samuel James Guernsey (1919)
"It should be remembered, however, that our knowledge of the Basket Maker culture
is still far more scanty than our knowledge of the Cliff-dweller. ..."
2. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1892)
"... anthropological association termed the Society of Cliff-Dweller Archaeology
of America. It is incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois, ..."
3. Indian Village Site and Cemetery Near Madisonville, Ohio by Earnest Albert Hooton, Charles Clark Willoughby (1920)
"Several of these caves have in them small Cliff-dweller structures. ... There is
in it ample evidence of Cliff-dweller occupation, consisting of some ..."
4. At the Sign of the Dollar by Wallace Irwin (1905)
"PLAINT OF AN ANCIENT CLIFF- DWELLER In a penny museum a Cliff-Dweller's skull
Reclined, an old relic of cavernous hollows, Who winked at me twice from his ..."
5. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1912)
"Armstrong SC, Navajos. Bandelier, Indians of NM Bandelier. History of the Zuni
Tribe. Chapín, Land of the cliff dweller». The A. H, Clark Co. ..."
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