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Basket-making people of the Southwest
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anasazi
Alternative clues for the word anasazi
- Prehistoric Pueblo culture
- Pueblo Indian ancestors
- Chaco Canyon people
- Ancient people of the Southwest
- A Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings
- Early Southwestern natives around the Virgin River
- Pueblo ancestors
Word definitions for anasazi in dictionaries
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Word definitions in 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
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
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.