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Anasazi is from a Navajo word: ánaasází. It means ancestors of our enemies or of the strangers (not Navajo people). It is sometimes translated now as ancient ones. When white Americans first started exploring the ruins in the 1880s they had Navajo guides and workmen. These men gave them this name. The Navajo are thought to have entered the area around 1100 to 900 years ago and would have encountered these people. When the clans moved out to the locations where Pueblo people are today, the Navajo did not occupy these sites because of cultural taboos about pollution and sickness from possible contact with the dead. But they knew and the Pueblo people knew who had lived there before and thus their name for them.
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Did the Anasazi have a nickname?
The Anasazi were called the cliff dwellers or Hopi.
Who were known as the cliff dwellers?
Anasazi Indians Actually they were a part of the Anasazi Culture. They were known simply as Cliff Dwellers.
What is the name for Cliff Dwellers?
Anasazi
Who is a Cliff DWELLERS who disappeared?
Anasazi Indians
Who were the cliff dwellers that disappeared mysteriously?
anasazi
What cliff dwellers who disappeared mysteriously?
anasazi
Cliff dwellers who disappered mysteriously?
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What Indian tribe were known as cliff dwellers?
There is debate (among all) as to which current tribes are descendants of the Pueblo Builders (c.1200 BC); known generally as "Ancient Puebloans" or "Anasazi" the latter word being Navajo for "Ancient Ones" or "Ancient Enemy."
Why the Anasazi are also known as Cliff Dwellers?
Because they built homes in the cliffs.
Did the anasazi people live in the jungle why or why not?
No, they were cliff-dwellers and they lived in apartment-style buildings set into the sides of cliffs.
Is anasazi also known as Cliff Dwellers?
Yes they were, because they made tall apartment-like dwellings in the faces of cliffs.
What are cliff palace ruins?
They are the remains of the ancient Anasazi population's homes.
