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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.
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The anasazi indians are known for growing corn, and making them into corn meal patties and etc.
What are three facts about the Hohokam?
It is believed that a group of people belonging to the ancient MesoAmerican cultures (Mayan and Aztec) traveled north to settle in the area which is present-day southern Arizona. They came to this rugged valley formed by the slow running Gila and Salt rivers around 300 BC. They survived in this region by irrigating the land, and their advanced farming methods produced an ample supply of food to support their sizeable population. They lived there until 1500 AD and for reasons that are still a mystery, their culture began to fade, and subsequently vanished. The Pima called these remarkable people the "Hohokam" meaning the "vanished ones."
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Why ancient cliff dwellers called Anasazi?
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.
They lived in many areas like cliff sides...
The Anasazi People settled in the Western United States, their territories stretching from New Mexico and Arizona to Utah.
What did the Anasazis do on a daily basis?
They did the types of daily things that human beings have always done. They slept, gathered food, hunted, prepared and ate food, cared for their children, practiced their religion, and kept their shelters in good repair. They also traded with other ancient peoples, and made irrigation systems so that they could grow crops.
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Where is the four corners built by the anasazi now?
It is still there - in the Four Corners Region: where Colorado, New Mexico , Arizona, and Utah intersect.
What did the Anasazis build large houses with?
The largest Anasazi houses, at the peak of their civilization, were built of stone, adobe bricks, and tuff. (A type of stone)
How would building on cliff walls provide protection for the anasazi?
The Anasazi often built complex houses on cliff walls to defend against attacks.
Did the anasazi have tribal leaders or councils?
The Anaszi do have a leader. Each Anasazi village had 10 to 20 people in it including the leader.
When did the anasazi leave mesa verde?
The ancestral pueblo people began leaving the Mesa Verde area in the later 1200s. There is evidence of a prolonged 24 year drought at this time and changes in rain fall patterns as well. They went to the south and east. Their descendants are the 21 Pueblo groups.
