Crossword clues for anasazi
anasazi
- Prehistoric Pueblo culture
- Ancient pueblo dwellers
- A Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings
- Ancient Indians of the Four Corners region
- Southwestern bean
- Pueblo Indian ancestors
- Pueblo ancestors
- Prehistoric Southwest culture
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Name applied by their Navajo neighbors to modern Pueblo peoples of the U.S. southwest, and to various landscape features associated with them, from Navajo anaasazi "ancestors of the enemies." Said to first have been applied to the ancient Pueblo ruins of southwestern United States in the Mesa Verde region c.1889 by rancher and trader Richard Wetherill, who began exploration of the sites in the area; established in archaeological terminology 1927.
Wiktionary
n. Any member of a Native American people who once lived in cliff-dwellings in Utah and Colorado. n. The language once spoken by these people.
Wikipedia
"Anasazi" is the twenty-fifth episode and season finale of the second season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on . It was written by series creator Chris Carter based on a story he developed with lead actor David Duchovny. The episode was directed by R. W. Goodwin, and featured guest appearances by Peter Donat, Nicholas Lea, Mitch Pileggi and Floyd Red Crow Westerman. The episode helped explore the overarching mythology, or fictional history of The X-Files. "Anasazi" earned a Nielsen household rating of 10.1, being watched by 9.6 million households in its initial broadcast; and received positive reviews from critics.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny) and Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. In this episode, Mulder and Scully come into possession of a tape containing classified government files, and attempt to decipher its contents. Meanwhile, Mulder's mental health begins to deteriorate, and a mysterious corpse is discovered on a New Mexico reservation. "Anasazi" is part of a three-episode storyline, with the plot carrying on in the third season episodes " The Blessing Way" and " Paper Clip".
Series creator Chris Carter worked closely with series star David Duchovny, who shares a story credit with Carter for the episode. Because the series was filmed in Vancouver, the producers painted a disused quarry in Vancouver with 1,600 gallons of red paint and also composited in images shot in New Mexico and a blue sky in order to make the New Mexico rock quarry featured in the episode.
The Anasazi or Ancient Pueblo Peoples were an ancient Native American culture in what is now the Southwestern United States.
Anasazi may also refer to:
- Virgin Anasazi, the westernmost Ancient Pueblo group
- "Anasazi" (The X-Files), an episode of the American television series The X-Files
- Tyr Anasazi, a character from the television series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
Usage examples of "anasazi".
She had been cooped up in classrooms too long, earning money so that she could explore the Anasazi homeland during the long summer break.
At the height of the Anasazi culture, the land supported more people than it does today with twentieth-century technology.
Then I combine everything with my own knowledge of the Anasazi and make a series of drawings of the site as it probably looked when it was inhabited.
When the light touched the rock just right, tiny dimples could be seen, marks left by countless patient blows from a stone ax held in the hands of an Anasazi stone mason.
Hundreds of years ago the Anasazi had looked out on the same land, smelled the same scent of wet earth and pinon, seen the glittering beauty of sunlight captured in a billion drops of water clinging to needles and boughs and the sheer face of the cliff itself.
With the Anasazi, you never know when the ground is a ceiling covering a sunken kiva.
Every Anasazi who went up on the mesa to tend crops had to climb up the cliff with no more help than they could get out of the crack.
She had come to look forward to the hours spent sorting shards and talking about the Anasazi almost as much as she enjoyed working on the site itself.
Whatever made the professors give up on good old common sense to explain the Anasazi cliff dwellings?
Her trained eye quickly picked out the angular stones and random potshards that marked an Anasazi site.
But what we have out there is an organized band of Anasazi grave robbers.
We have a rich Anasazi heritage here in Colorado, and damned if I want a bunch of profiteers and looters to be capitalizing on it.
And Mesa Verde is just one of the sites of old Anasazi ruins located in southeastern Colorado.
And I believe that Miss Mason is right to say that there is probably an organized gang dealing in Anasazi bones.
All I have to do is infiltrate a gang of Indian grave robbers and halt the flow of Anasazi artifacts out of this country.