cliff dweller

/klɪf ˌdwɛlər/
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Other forms: cliff dwellers

Definitions 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
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    Anasazi
    a Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings
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