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The term "Anasazi" was established in archaeological terminology through the Pecos Classification system in 1927. It had been adopted from the Navajo. Archaeologist Linda Cordell discussed the word's etymology and use: The name "Anasazi" has come to mean "ancient people," although the word itself is Navajo, meaning "enemy
A map of ancestral Pueblo cultures. Hundreds of Ancestral Puebloan dwellings are found across the American Southwest.With almost all constructed well before 1492 CE, these Puebloan towns and villages are located throughout the geography of the Southwest.
Ruins also called Clawson Ruins [42] were of the Pueblo tradition from the broad periods of 1-1499 AD [Pueblo people left Montezuma County area by 1300.] The previous village was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [17] Joe Ben Wheat Site Complex (Site ID 5MT.16722) Anasazi Pueblo II, Pueblo III Yellow Jacket
Anasazi: St. Michaels: End of Yellow Meadow Road, Navajo Nation: Single Dwelling: Ruins located on the Navajo Nation: Agate House: Holbrook: Ruins located in the Petrified Forest National Park: Antelope House: Canyon de Chelly Ruins located in Canyon de Chelly National Monument: Awatovi: Navajo County: Ruins Bailey Ruin: Pinedale, Arizona
Anasazi Bluff Ruins located in Hovenweep National Monument. Hackberry Anasazi Bluff Ruins located in Hovenweep National Monument. Holly: Anasazi Bluff Ruins located in Hovenweep National Monument. Cajon: Anasazi Bluff Ruins located in Hovenweep National Monument. Monarch Cave: Anasazi Bluff Ruins located in Butler Wash, Utah. Hovenweep House ...
Anasazi is a Navajo word that means Ancient Ones or Ancient Enemy, hence Pueblo peoples' rejection of it (see exonym). [4] Pueblo is a Spanish term for "village". When Spanish conquest of the Americas began in the 16th-century with the founding of Nuevo México, they came across complex, multistory villages built of adobe, stone and other local ...
The Virgin Anasazi were the westernmost Ancestral Puebloan group in the American Southwest. They occupied the area in and around the Virgin River and Muddy Rivers, the western Colorado Plateau, the Moapa Valley and were bordered to the south by the Colorado River. [1] They occupied areas in present-day Nevada, Arizona, and Utah.
This region has long been occupied by hunter-gatherers and agricultural people. Many contemporary cultural traditions exist within the Greater Southwest, including Yuman -speaking peoples inhabiting the Colorado River valley, the uplands, and Baja California , O'odham peoples of Southern Arizona and northern Sonora, and the Pueblo peoples of ...