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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.

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'Cliff Palace', massive and ancient Ancestral Puebloan settlement, southwestern USA (media.piefed.social)
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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I’ve been there. It’s fascinating.

[–] numbermess@fedia.io 2 points 3 weeks ago

Is that the Gila Cliff Dwellings in NM? My brother and I went there years ago but I don't remember it being this large.