0
Anasazi Indians
The Anasazi were an ancient Native American Pueblo culture, centered in the Four Corners area of the Southwest United States. These mysterious ancestors of the modern Pueblo Indians were noted for their distinctive styles of pottery and construction of their dwellings.
453 Questions
the Mississippian settlement of cahokia
What environment is a pueblo in?
The pueblos environment is sandy and hot they lived in south west of north America and lived in a building on canyon. This building is a D shape with 5 storeys and 800 rooms for 1,000 people. the buildings made from stone, mud and adobe. hope this helps by the way there settled.
Why might the anasazi have built the type of buildings they did?
The modern Pueblo people are the direct descendants of the so-called Anasazi. There is no break in the tradition. They are often now called the Ancestral Pueblo peoples. All the cultural artifacts, not just the houses, that we can find, are in an unbroken line. They also all have stories, that are assumed to be true, of which clans came form which now abandoned "Anansazi" ruins. And some Pueblos people still go and do rituals in those places. The changes in location probably have to do with prolonged drought and changes in timing of rainfall that happened around 1250-1300. These weather changes also appear to have caused cultural upheaval. The also may have been problems with down-cutting of streams and lowering of water tables do to cutting too many trees. The people moved to areas with more reliable water sources for farming and brought the building technology with them.
How were the Hohokam different from the Anasazi?
- the Hohokam culture didn't know how to make adobe until the Anasaz culture taught them
What game does the anasazi play?
Anasazi children played games with each other, probably things similar to tag and hide and seek. They also played games with small, disk-like game pieces.
Anasazi is originally a Navajo word meaning 'ancient enemy' or 'old-time stranger' that archaeologists applied to people who farmed the Four Corners before 1300 AD.
Where was the Anasazi Empire located?
The Anasazi Indians stretched from present Arizona, and New Mexico all the way to central Utah and Colorado. Close by, the Mogollon and Hohokam people occupied smaller regions which were identical to the Anasazi culture.They lived south of the Anasazi region, and some even stretched into present day Mexico.
newtest3 by tyje jones Stephanie Smith
How did the Anasazi protect themselves against their enemies?
They made adobe bricks from mud or clay mixed with straw, sun baked them so that they'd harden, and stacked them up. When They hit the top of a story, they'd make the roof by laying logs across the top, covering those with hay, straw, and brush, then covering that with adobe or clay. the roof of that story would become the floor of the next story up. These adobe homes, sometimes called "Pueblos", were usually one to seven stories high. few windows, with none on the bottom story. The main entryway was a hole on the roof. The Pueblo Indians sometimes covered the windows with adobe bricks if the weather was too cold. Sometimes they covered windows with "Selenite", the clear form of the rock called "Gypsum".
What advantage did the anasazis gain by moving from pueblos to cliff dwellings?
protection from raiders
Did their dwellings depend on the season how?
No they didn't depend on the seasons. They were built into the face of a mountain and were stone as well as carved out of the mountain. The great thing about them is that they were cool in the summer and warm in the winter. The Southwest weather is not a very harsh one compared to other areas and the Pueblo dwellings were located high on a mountain. Not only did they have protection from others, but the way they were built kept them dry and cool. It can get extremely hot in the Southwestern desert.
What did male cliff dwellers wear?
They all wore shells around their neck as a sign of wealth, and men and woman wore deerskin dresses and pants. and mocassins.
What social structure did the Anasazi have?
There is no evidence of any social class. But some records show men had meetings in underground rooms to discuss problems.
Nampeyo is a family name whose fame traces to "Old Lady" Nampeyo. She is responsible for reviving Hopi pottery in the late 1800's and into the 1900's and utilized design elements from ancient Pueblo ruins. She initially collaborated with her daughters, notably Annie. Her youngest daughter, Fannie Nampeyo has become a matriarch herself with dozens of related family potters.The Nampeyo name is famous.
The Nampeyo family hails from the village of Polacca at the base of first Mesa, home of the famed ancient Walpi village. All of this, of course, is on Hopiland, about sixty miles north of Winslow, Arizona.
What was the area like where the anasazi Indians lived?
Yes they had the Grand Canyon. They also had the cliffs where they build they're home.
No. They were a very ancient people and have long since disappeared. They may, however, have descendants in some of the present day Pueblo peoples of the Southwest.
How did the anasazi Indians make jewelry?
with stone
tricked ya i lied i really don't know do you know?
What comfort did the Anasazi have living on the sides of cliffs?
The cliffs offered protection from from raiders.
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."
