- Ancestral Puebloans - Wikipedia
The name "Anasazi" has come to mean "ancient people," although the word itself is Navajo, meaning "enemy ancestors " [The Navajo word is anaasází (< anaa-"enemy", sází "ancestor") ] It is unfortunate that a non-Pueblo word has come to stand for a tradition that is certainly ancestral Pueblo
- What Does “Anasazi” Mean, and Why Is It Controversial?
The term “Anasazi” was established in 1927 through the archaeological Pecos Classification system, referring to the Ancestral Pueblo people who spanned the present-day Four Corners region of the United States, including Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, Canyon De Chelly, and Aztec
- Riddles of the Anasazi - Smithsonian Magazine
The Anasazi produced great works of art—villages such as Mesa Verde’s Cliff Palace, hallucinatory petroglyph panels, some of the most beautiful pottery in the world—at the same time that its
- The Anasazi [ushistory. org]
Centuries before Europe's discovery and colonization of the Americas, the Anasazi people built a complex culture in what is now the southwestern United States Their cliff dwellings are of particular interest to modern people
- The Mysterious Ancient Puebloan Peoples (Anasazi)
Thousands of archaeological sites, spread about across the American states of New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona, testify to the presence of a advanced civilization: the “Anasazi” or the Ancestral Ancient Puebloan peoples
- Anasazi Timeline - Chronology of the Ancestral Pueblo People - ThoughtCo
The term Anasazi is no longer in use by the archaeological community; scholars now call it the Ancestral Pueblo That was in part at the request of modern pueblo people who are the descendants of the people who populated the American Southwest Mexican Northwest—the Anasazi did not in any way disappear
- The Great Houses and Cliff Dwellings of the Anasazi . . . - The Archaeologist
The Anasazi people are among the most mysterious and fascinating of North America's ancient cultures The Navajo word for "Ancient Ones" (Anasazi) refers to a group of people who were around between 200 B C and 1300 A D and who are thought to have inhabited the American Southwest
- History and religion of Ancestral Pueblo culture | Britannica
Ancestral Pueblo culture, also called Anasazi, North American Indian civilization that developed from c ad 100 to 1600, centring on the area where the present-day boundaries of the U S states of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah intersect
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