Anasazi

(proper noun)

Any of a Native American people who once lived in cliff dwellings in Utah and Colorado.

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Examples of Anasazi in the following topics:

  • The Southwest

    • The Anasazi (1000 BCE–700 CE) are the ancestors of today's Pueblo tribes.
    • For hundreds of years, the Anasazi created utilitarian grayware and black-on-white pottery, as well as orange or red ceramics.
    • Describe the Anasazi, Hopi, Navajo, and Hohokam cultures of the American Southwest.

  • Art and Architecture of the Southwest Cultures

    • The Anasazi, or Ancestral Pueblo (1000 BCE–700 CE), are the ancestors of today's Pueblo tribes.
    • The Anasazi culture is perhaps best known for the stone and adobe dwellings built along cliff walls, particularly during the Pueblo II (900-1150 CE) and Pueblo III (1150-1350 CE) eras.
    • The creations of the Fremont culture, the Anasazi, and later tribes can be seen at present day Buckhorn Draw Pictograph Panel and Horseshoe Canyon, among other sites.

  • Native Americans in the 1490's

    • Along with the contemporary Anasazi, these cultural collapses coincide with the global climate change of the Little Ice Age.

  • Southwestern Culture

    • One of the major cultures that developed during this time was the Pueblo peoples, formerly referred to as the Anasazi.