FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICANS
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dugouts
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adobe
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mesa
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shaman
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Detailed explanation-1: -A butte is also a flat-topped hill with steep sides, though smaller in area than a Mesa.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mesas. Mesas are isolated, broad flat-topped mountains with at least one steep side. Mesas are abundant in the southwestern states of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona. Buttes. Buttes are smaller flat topped mountains or hills with steep slopes on all sides.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mesas characteristically consist of flat-lying soft sedimentary rocks capped by a more resistant layer or layers of harder rock, e.g. shales overlain by sandstones. The resistant layer acts as a caprock that forms the flat summit of a mesa.
Detailed explanation-4: -Buttes are tall, flat-topped, steep-sided towers of rock. Buttes were created through the process of erosion, the gradual wearing away of earth by water, wind, and ice. Buttes were once part of flat, elevated areas of land known as mesas or plateaus.
Detailed explanation-5: -A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. The topographic terms acme, apex, peak (mountain peak), and zenith are synonymous.