Copyright 1996 The New York Times Company The New York Times August 20, 1996, Tuesday, Late Edition - Final Section C; Page 1; Column 3; Science Desk 1903 words Social Strife May Have Exiled Ancient Indians By GEORGE JOHNSON SANTA FE, N.M. UNTIL very recently, the most perplexing mystery of Southwestern archeology -- what caused the collapse of the ancient empire of the Anasazi -- seemed all but solved. Careful scrutiny of tree-ring records seemed to establish that in t ...

Home | Subsccribe | News | Shop | TV | Events | Links | Contact | Free Info | Advertise | Search A publication of the Archaeological Institute of America Anasazi Cannibalism? Volume 50 Number 5, September/October 1997 by Amélie A. Walker Human remains found at a twelfth-century A.D. site near Cowboy Wash in southwestern Colorado provide further evidence of cannibalism among the Anasazi (see "A Case for Cannibalism," ARCHAEOLOGY, January/February 1994). The remains of 12 people ...

ANASAZI: THE ANCIENT ONES The word "Anasazi" (ah-nuh-SAH-zee) is used to describe a distinctive American Indian civilization and culture that existed from about 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1300 in the Four Corners Area of Southwestern United States. See Southwest Culture Map. These people are probably best known for the ruins of their monumental cliff dwellings at places like Mesa Verde, which they abandoned at the end of the 13th century. But that's a small part of their story. ...

CLICK ANY TOPIC HEADING, OR SCROLL DOWN . . . . Who were the Ancestral Pueblo people (Anasazi) ? What became of them? Where did they go ? What languages did they speak ? What was Ancestral Pueblo architecture like ? What kind of government and social structure did they have ? What were their religious activities like ? Did the Ancestral Puebloans study astronomy? Did they communicate and trade with other cultures ? What clothing did they wear ? How did they farm ? How did peo ...

Social Strife May Have Exiled Ancient Indians By GEORGE JOHNSON, SANTA FE, N.M. UNTIL very recently, the most perplexing mystery of Southwestern archeology -- what caused the collapse of the ancient empire of the Anasazi -- seemed all but solved. Careful scrutiny of tree-ring records seemed to establish that in the late 1200's a prolonged dry spell called the Great Drought drove these people, the ancestors of today's pueblo Indians, to abandon their magnificent stone villages at Mesa Verde a ...

Chaco Canyon: Historical Aspects History Chaco Canyon, for all its wild beauty, seems an unlikely place for the Anasazi culture to take root and flourish. This is desert country, with long winters, short growing seasons, and marginal rainfall. Yet a thousand years ago, this valley was a center of Anasazi life. This people farmed the lowlands and built great masonry towns that connected with other towns over a far-reaching network of roads. In architecture, in complexity of community li ...

Copy Email This Show Close Window 1 of 13 Utah's Mystery People The Anasazi Butler Wash Ruins: An Ancient Water World Jump to Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Media Show by Whitehorse Warner

Copy Email This Show Close Window 1 of 8 Bluff: Gateway to a Prehistoric Realm Bluff, Utah, is located on the San Juan River in the corner of southeast Utah. While nearby towns have water rationing, Bluff has numerous water resources: the San Juan River, springs, seeps and artesian wells. These were all liquid assets of the ancient Anasazi people. Jump to Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Media Show by Whitehorse Warner

Copy Email This Show Close Window 1 of 6 Moonflower: A Model of Anasazi Ingenuity The Hopi claim these and other two-horned figures found in rock art throughout the Southwest represent Two-Horned Priests, the top ranking clan that holds the knowledge of the pre-existence of the Hopi people in the underworlds. Jump to Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Media Show by Whitehorse Warner

Copy Email This Show Close Window 1 of 5 Pot Hunters Worst Nightmare Earl Shumway dug into an Anasazi grave that contained an albino medicine man, clutching a medicine bag that contained arrowheads, pouches of different herbs, and pipes. While uncovering the body, he stepped on a rattlesnake, which bit him. Later, a dirt wall collapsed on Shumway, burying the site. He returned the following day, and broke his ankle. After treatment, he returned again to the excavation sit ...

Copy Email This Show Close Window 1 of 8 Yucca, used by the Ancient Anasazi, grows wild throughout the Southwest. Yucca is now cultivated to some extent as a landscape plant, and is also still used by native people in hair washing ceremonies and on a limited basis for food. the ancients used the leaves of the plant to weave sandals, mats, baskets, string, and other cordage. The leaves were chewed, exposing the fibers; the fibers became a paint brush to decorate pottery ...

Copy Email This Show Close Window 1 of 8 Anasazi Archeo-Astronomy Were the Anasazi visited by aliens from outer space and distant planets? The author Eric Von Daniken believes so and has written four books on the subject that were published in the 1970s. In some of his books, such as In Search of Ancient Gods, he gives pictorial evidences for his theories. His evidence includes well-known pictoglyphs found in Utah's canyons and elsewhere. Daniken claims that the figure in this g ...

back to Site Guides | southwest | rat haus | Index | Search | tree Spruce House 1995 Site Guide This site guide does not contain all the pictures from the original at this time. Spruce House You are now entering an area that has changed very little in 700-800 years. To the prehistoric inhabitants, a people we call the Anasazi, the canyons provided food, shelter and other materials for daily survival. Some of the most important plants to the people of Spruce ...

Anasazi Anasazi is a Navajo word meaning "the ancient people." The Anasazi were a Native American people who lived in the Colorado plateau region of Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico from about 100 C.E. Descendants of the Anasazi culture include the present-day Pueblo peoples of Arizona. Anasazi culture included an Basket Maker phase and a Pueblo phase; it was during this latter phase that the Anasazi constructed the cliff dwellings and crafts for which they remain famous. Evidence of ...

Max Bertola's southern Utah Anasazi The Ancient Ones Our only clues to their existence are what they left behind - homes deserted, desert walls etched with their symbols and art and the leftover things they used in their daily lives. It all amounts to the pieces of a giant jig saw puzzle, without the finished pattern to go from and not sure if we even have all the pieces. [Rock Art] [Pioneers] [Rodeo] [Scenic Byways] [Montezuma] [Kokopelli] [Hogan] [Features Homepage] Corn ...

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The Anasazi The People of the Mountains, Mesas and Grasslands Like their cultural kin – the Mogollon and the Hohokam – in the deserts to the south, the earliest Anasazi peoples felt the currents of revolutionary change during the first half of the first millennium. Perhaps in a response to Mesoamerican influences from Mexico, they began to turn away from the nomadism of the ancient hunting and gathering life, the seasonal r ...

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