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The name "Anasazi" has come to mean "ancient people," although the word itself is Navajo, meaning "enemy ancestors." [The Navajo word is anaasází (< anaa- "enemy", sází "ancestor").] It is unfortunate that a non-Pueblo word has come to stand for a tradition that is certainly ancestral Pueblo.
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 Ancestral Pueblo society is one of the most complex to be found in Oasisamerica, and they are assumed to be the ancestors of the modern Pueblo people (including the Zuñi and Hopi). (The term "Anasazi" is also used to describe these cultures. It is a Navajo term meaning "enemy ancestors."
Site name Pueblo peoples Nearest town (modern name) Location Type Description Photo Hovenweep Castle: Anasazi: Bluff: Ruins located in Hovenweep National Monument.: Square Tower
The term Anasazi is sometimes used to refer to Ancestral Puebloan peoples, but it is considered derogatory and offensive. "Anasazi" is a Navajo adoption of a Ute term that translates to Ancient Enemy or Primitive Enemy, but was used by them to mean something like "barbarian" or "savage", hence the modern Pueblo peoples' rejection of it (see ...
Anasazi is a term, now seen as derogatory, to refer to Pueblo peoples, an ancient yet enduring Native American culture in the Southwestern United States, as well as the Ancestral Puebloans. Anasazi may also refer to: Virgin Anasazi, the westernmost Ancient Pueblo group "Anasazi" (The X-Files), an episode of The X-Files
Pueblo Bonito, one of the seminal archaeological sites today, is an example of this indigenous multistory apartment complex construction from the Anasazi and Hohokam time periods; approximately dating back one thousand years ago. Nazca monkey. Art to be viewed from space – The Nazca Lines were created by the ancient Nazca culture in modern ...
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.