the prehistoric peoples who occupied parts of a region extending from southwestern Nevada on the west to the edge of the Great Plains in New Mexico and Colorado on the east, and from northeastem Utah and northwestem Colorado on the north, to central New Mexico and the Little Colorado River in Arizona on the south. Remains of the Anasazi culture include the ruins at Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde, Canyon de Chelly, and the Navajo National Monument. Like the Hohokam, the Anasazi developed out of an Archaic tradition to become sedentary farmers. The Anasazi lifeway first emerged around the time of Christ. The first Anasazi are known as Basketmakers. The lifeway continues today in the New Mexican pueblos and Hopi villages.
Ancestral Pueblo Indians; the ``Ancients.''
Navajo word for "ancient ones": Native American group in Southwest prominent around 1200 BCE.
a Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings
A Diné (Navajo) word that means "ancient ones." It is sometimes used as another name for the ancient Pueblo people.
Navajo word meaning "ancient ones" or "ancient enemy." For many years this was the name used for the ancestors of people living in the Four Corners region of the Southwest. Today, most people use the term ancient Puebloans or Chacoans.
the prehistoric Indians who inhabited the Four Corners area who are thought to be the ancestors of the Pueblo peoples
A Navajo word that means "ancient ones." It is sometimes used as another name for the ancestral Puebloans.
The Prehistoric Pueblo Indians of northern Arizona and New Mexico; sometimes referred to as the 'Ancient Ones', believed to be the ancestors of many of the Pueblo Indians
"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)
One of the three desert cultures that shaped life in the American Southwest from 300 B.C. to A.D. 1300. Developed a new way of building pueblos and the technique of farming on top of mesas. Used both hand-formed adobe bricks and stones to build their homes.