Anasazi

Definition: Anasazi

Anasazi

Noun

1. A Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings.

Specialty Definition: Anasazi

The Anasazi were a prehistoric Native American civilization centered around the present-day Four Corners area of the Southwest United States. Archaeologists still debate when a distinct Anasazi culture emerged, but the current consensus, based on terminology defined by the Pecos Classification, suggests their emergence around 1200 B.C, the Basketmaker II Era.

Anasazi is a common term for Ancestral Puebloans, the ancestors of the modern Pueblo peoples. The term "Anasazi" is not preferred by their descendents, though there's no consensus amongst them on a native alternative. The word is Navajo for "Ancient Ones" or "Ancient Enemy."

The civilization is perhaps best-known for the jacal, adobe and sandstone dwellings that they built along cliff walls, particularly during the Pueblo II and Pueblo III eras. The best-preserved examples of those dwellings are in parks such as Chaco Culture National Historical Park, Mesa Verde National Park, and Canyon De Chelly National Monument. These villages, called pueblos by Mexican settlers, were often only accessible by rope or through rock climbing.

They also left behind a lot of petroglyphs and pictographs.

The Anasazi disappeared for as yet undetermined reasons. Many have speculated that a change in local climate and resulting agricultural failures may be the reason.

See also: kiva, sipapu, Kokopelli, Hopi, Zuni, Taos Pueblo

Commercial Usage: Anasazi

Domain	Title
Books	Holocene Depositional History and Anasazi Occupation in McElmo Canyon, Southwestern Colorado (Asm Archaeological Series, 188) (reference) Bone Walker: An Anasazi Mystery (Gear, Kathleen O'Neal. Anasazi Mysteries, Bk. 3.) (reference) Relation of ""Bonito"" Paleo-Channels and Base-Level Variations to Anasazi Occupation, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (reference) Anasazi America: 17 Centuries on the Road from Center Place (reference) Anasazi Pottery: Ten Centuries of Prehistoric Ceramic Art in the Four Corners Country of the Southwestern United States, As Illustrated by the Earl (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Image Slideshow: Anasazi

Photo Album: Anasazi

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	Artifacts from the Anasazi Heritage Center in Dolores, Colorado. Credit: Unknown.		Aerial photo of the Anasazi Heritage Center in Dolores, Colorado. Credit: Unknown.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Anasazi

Anagrams: Anasazi

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-i-n-s-z"
	-2 letters: asana, azans, nazis.
	-3 letters: ains, anas, anis, ansa, azan, nazi, sain, zins.
	-4 letters: aas, ain, ais, ana, ani, ins, sin, zin.
	-5 letters: aa, ai, an, as, in, is, na, si.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-i-n-s-z"
	+1 letter: gazanias.
	+3 letters: manzanitas.
	+5 letters: analyzations, nasalization, zoantharians.
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Alternative Orthography: Anasazi

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6E 61 73 61 7A 69

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101110 01100001 01110011 01100001 01111010 01101001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#110 &#97 &#115 &#97 &#122 &#105

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006E 0061 0073 0061 007A 0069

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
anasazi	224	anasazi history	4
inn anasazi	57	anasazi hair product	3
anasazi indian	41	anasazi artifact	3
anasazi bean	17	anasazi pottery sale	3
anasazi pottery	13	anasazi jar mimbres seed	2
anasazi ruin	11	anasazi hotel	2
inn of the anasazi santa fe	7	anasazi cliff dwelling	2
anasazi foundation	6	anasazi government	2
anasazi easter island	5	anasazi free hair product shipping	2
tyr anasazi	5	anasazi ruin poster	2
anasazi culture	5	american anasazi native	2
anasazi center heritage	4	anasazi tribe	2
anasazi software	4	anasazi indian village state park	2
anasazi seedjar	4	anasazi condo	2
anasazi shampoo	4	five ten anasazi	2
anasazi stone	4	anasazi bowl mimbres	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anasazi

Definition: Anasazi

Anasazi

Noun

Specialty Definition: Anasazi

Crosswords: Anasazi

Commercial Usage: Anasazi

Books

Image Slideshow: Anasazi

Photos:Anasazi

Photo Album: Anasazi

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Anasazi

Anagrams: Anasazi

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Anasazi

41 6E 61 73 61 7A 69

.- -. .- ... .- --.. ..

01000001 01101110 01100001 01110011 01100001 01111010 01101001

&#65 &#110 &#97 &#115 &#97 &#122 &#105

0041 006E 0061 0073 0061 007A 0069

35806785679275

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