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The Navajo now use the term in the sense of referring to "ancient people" or "primitive ones", i.e., savages or barbarians, [10] whereas others ascribe the meaning of Anasazi to "the older ones who are different from our people"; (lit. Ana = "different from us" + asaza = "the old ones"). [11]
Anasazi Heritage Center, Aerial View Regional map of Ancient Pueblo peoples, or Anasazi, centered on the Four Corners. The Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center and Museum (formerly the Anasazi Heritage Center) located in Dolores, Colorado, is an archaeological museum of Native American pueblo and hunter-gatherer cultures.
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.
The term "Anasazi" is sometimes used to refer to Ancestral Puebloan peoples, but it is now considered to be highly derogatory and offensive. "Anasazi" is a Navajo adoption of a Ute term that literally translates to Ancient Enemy or Primitive Enemy , but was used by them to mean something like "barbarian" or "savage", hence the modern Pueblo ...
By 850, the Ancient Pueblo population—the "Anasazi", from a Ute term adopted by the Navajo denoting the "ancient ones" or "enemy ancestors"—had rapidly expanded: groups resided in larger, more densely populated pueblos. Strong evidence attests to a canyon-wide turquoise processing and trading industry dating from the tenth century.
The Coombs Site is the site of one of the largest Anasazi communities known to have existed west of the Colorado River.The name Anasazi, Navajo for "Ancient Enemies," or "Enemies of Our Ancestors" is sometimes used to describe the Pueblo culture that existed in the Four Corners area from about 1 AD to 1300 AD.
The Anasazi Heritage Center. Canyons of the Ancients National Monument Visitor Center and Museum, formerly known as the Anasazi Heritage Center, [27] includes artifacts from the monument, a museum with interactive exhibits, a library and a theatre. Information is available there regarding the Ancient Puebloan culture, Trail of the Ancients ...
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