Anasazi
(proper noun)
Any of a Native American people who once lived in cliff dwellings in Utah and Colorado.
Examples of Anasazi in the following topics:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Southwestern Culture
- One of the major cultures that developed during this time was the Pueblo peoples, formerly referred to as the Anasazi.