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Anasazi Indians: Pueblo Indians
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The Anasazi Indians of the Southwest represent 2,500 years of cultural continuity, from the early Basket Makers of 700 B.C. to their modern descendants, the Pueblo Indians. The pueblos and cliff dwellings they built during their halcyon days between 1100 and 1500 A.D. are the most spectacular ruins north of Mexico. In this book, all of the significant and accessible Anasazi ruins are photographed and described in detail. Special attention is paid to the magnificent sites of Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, and Kayenta. Also included are illustrations of rock art and examples of the delicate jewelry and beautiful ceramics that have survived.
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The Anasazi Indians made their homes by out of natural caves, or on top of mesas which were all part of the rocky terrain and canyons of the Four Corners region. These villages, or "pueblos" were remarkably similar to today's apartment complexes in that they interconnected several rooms and homes, shaped out of stone and adobe by the expert hands of Anasazi masons. These dwellings were adorned with a protective layer of clay mud, either white, gray, yellow, or reddish brown. The homes were further decorated with hand prints and/or geometric patterns. The rooftops of the houses were ... used in the fall, when harvested crops were lain to dry in the heat of the sun. Two very good examples of the sophistication of Anasazi architecture can be seen in the Concha Canyon and Mesa Verde Pueblos.
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A people rich in culture, the 7,000-year-old Anasazi are the ancestors of today's Pueblo Indians. Their culture arose from even more ancient peoples in what is now the American Southwest. During their long history, the Anasazi evolved from a nomadic to a sedentary culture and existence. At first hunter-gatherers, in time the Anasazi began raising maize and other crops. They ... produced skillfully woven baskets. By a.d. 700, the Anasazi were building pueblos, or villages, along with extraordinary pottery marked by elaborate black-on-white designs.
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Regarding the spoken language of the Anasazi, the probable descendents of the Anasazi--the Pueblo Indians who live in the Southwest today--speak a variety of different languages, some of which are not related to one another at all. The problem is that in prehistoric times, just as today, people moved around a lot, and during some particularly momentous times, there were mass migrations that often brought people from other regions into the northern Southwest where they began to live with the Anasazi. So, for example, the Zuni Indians of today may speak a language that has its roots in southern Arizona among non-Anasazi people. The Hopi, similarly, may have gained their language through in-migration of people from the Great Basin area of Utah and Nevada. This is an area of research that is still wide open!
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A people rich in culture, the 7,000-year-old Anasazi are the ancestors of today's Pueblo Indians. The Pueblo people point out that Anasazi is a Navajo term meaning enemy of long ago. The Anasazi culture centered in the southwestern United States, especially in what is now the Four Corners area, where Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona meet. In that region, about A.D. 1100, the Anasazi built homes called cliff dwellings in canyon walls or under rocky overhangs.
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The early Indians of this area, like the Anasazi, built cliff houses. Hohokam dug long irrigation canals. The Pueblo tribes, descendents of the early Anasazi Indians, had one of the most highly developed civilizations in North America. Most Pueblo lived in villages and farmed along rivers that provided enough water for irrigation. Their name—Pueblo—comes from the Spanish word for village.
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