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anasazi::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | amerindian, native american |
| Has types | cliff dweller |
- A Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings
- Ancient Pueblo People or Ancestral Puebloans were an ancient Native American culture centered on the present-day Four Corners area of the United States, comprising southern Utah, northern Arizona, northwest New Mexico, and a lesser section of Colorado. ...
- "Anasazi" is a 1995 episode of The X-Files television series. It was the twenty-fifth episode broadcast in the show's second season and was the season finale. Anasazi revolves around Mulder coming into possession of a digital tape that contains confidential government information about aliens.
- From approximately 1200 BC to around the mid 1500's the Anasazi (Ancestral Puebloan) mainly occupied the four corners area of the southwest (northern Arizona and southern Utah) but also made it as far west as the Las Vegas Valley (click here to go to Basic Timeline and Map).
- One of three major cultural traditions of the American Southwest during late prehistoric times. The Anasazi were centered in the northern Southwest, on the high plateau of the Four Corners region.
- Important culture of what is now the southwest of the United States (1000-1300 C.E.). Centered on Chaco Canyon in New Mexico and Mesa Verde in Colorado, the Anasazi culture built multistory residences and worshipped in subterranean buildings called kivas. (p. 308)
- A pueblo people developing from the Basketmakers and represented today by modern groups such as the Hopi and Zuni. ...
- The Navajo term for ancient Puebloan peoples.
- "The ancient ones"; culture located in southwestern United States; flourished from 200 to 1200 c.e.; featured large multistory adobe and stone buildings built in protected canyons or cliffs. (p. 212)
