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Acient Indians SW
Ancient Indians-American Southwest
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anasazi (1) | culture that lived in cliff dwellings abandoned at end of 13th century |
| pueblo culture | indian village in the American SW |
| Messa Verde | National Park in SW Colorado, site of Anasazi cliff dwellers |
| Anasazi (2) | "ancient people who are not us" dine |
| Chaco Canyon | 800 AD ancient puebloan culture stone buildings (Great Houses) hundreds of rooms, multiple stories road and water systems |
| Aztec Ruins | village in New Mexicow/ largest ceremonial kiva |
| Bandelier | national monument AZ ancestral pueblo homes, kivas and rock paintings |
| Tuzigoot | ancient hilltop agricultural pueblo AZ 110 1, 2 and 3 story structures 1000-1400AD |
| Hopi | descended fromancient puebloan structures w/ large apartment house complexes in AZ and New Mexico along Mogollan Rim 1100-1300 AD |
| Zuni | like hopi, descendants of Anasazi |
| Navajo | Dene people, largest Navajo reservation in USA |
| Taos | Native American Tribe of pueblo people still inhabited |
| Acoma | Native American pueblo built on top of 367 foot sandstone mesa in New Mexico (1100AD) |
| flint | hard sedimentary crystal in quartz, can be harder than stone |
| drought | extended period of time defieincy of water |
| Conquistadors CHECK | CHECK |
| Pueblo Revolt | In 1680New Mexico and AZ pueblos co-ordinated attack on Spanish and drove them back into Mexico 12 yrs later Gnrl Diego de Vargas led a bloodless reconquest |
| turquiose | a blue green mineral rpized for making Navajo silver jewelry |
| sandpainting | art of pouring colord sands and powdered pigments on a surface to make fixed and unfixed paintings- sometimes temporary |
| mano | grinding stone to grind grain, nuts and seeds |
| metate | flat concave stone base where grains atc were ground using a mano |
| Taos Pueblo | oldest, continually inhabited pueblo in America near Rio Grand canyon |
| Mogollon | hanger on or sponger culture that existed with the Anasazi and did commerce with them ancient farmers lived near Mogollon Plateau |
| Hohokam | native american culture 3bc to 1500 ad construction and extensive irrigation |
| Colorado Plateau | centered on "4 corners region" 90% area drained by colorado river desserts, scattered forest areas Grand Canyon in SW corner |
| foot holds/hand holds | holes carved in cliffs for hands and feet to climb in cliff dwellings |
| nomadic | constantly moving, never settling, wanderers |
| sedentary | stationary, settled, opposite of nomadic |
| horticulture | cultivationg plants and seeds for food |
| Pueblo diet | corn, squash, nuts, fish, deer, rabbit, antelope birds |
| Santa Clara CHECK | CHECK |
| kiva(great Kiva) | square, above ground room sed by modern Hopis |
| foot drums | rectangular boards or stretched animal hides that make deep sounds when danced upon |
| pictographs | pictures or like symbols that represent ideas or tell a story can be on wood,cloth, jewelry |
| pottery | each pueblo has their own style of pottery |
| yucca plant | memebers of agave family- stiff green swordlike leaves white flowers tall tips for needles |
| kachinas | benevolent spiritual intermediaries between SW people and the gods -brings good health, rain, blessings |
| weaving | wove decorative baskets and sandals from yucca plant sheeps wool blankets |
| mesa | elevated area of land with flat top, steep sides-like a table top |
| Monument Valley | valley of the rocks, Colorado Plateau, cluster of sanstone butts 100 ft above valley floor |
| cliff dwellers | of Anasazi culture builders of ancient cliff dwellings |
| Montezumas Csstle | well preserved cliff dwellings nothern cousins of Hohlkam 700 AD Beaver Creek |
| hohan | primary traditional round home made of wooden poles and mud door faces East sun |
| wickiup | temporary doomed room, branches and reeds to provide shade and ventilation |
| maize CHECK | early form of CHECK |
| Freemont Culture | lifetstyle revolved arounf hunting, gathering and corn horticulture named for freemont River |
| marauders | nomadic tribes who raided and plundered agricultural pueblos |
| Apache CHECK | CHECK |
| granary | storage room for grain in high cliff locations to protect from aniamls and raiding tribes |
| Kayenta CHECK | regional group of Anansazi CHECK |
| Keresan CHECK | CHECK languages |
| Kokopelli CHECK | CHECK |
| Moqui or Moki CHECK | CHECK identify ancestors |
| petroglyph | rock carving rock art by pecking ie. Newspaper Rock |
| pinon | small pine tree w/ edible pine nuts |
| pithouse | underground house pit lined w rocks roof o f branches and mud |
| potsherd | fragment or piece of |
| Pueblo Bonito | spanish for pretty village |
| Puebloan | modern native american indian peoples |
| sipapu | small hole in Kiva- hole where people enter the present earth |
| spindle whorl | in hand spinning wheel |
| teosinte | Mexican tall grass like native w/ tassle and small hard ears |
| tree-ring dating | scienctific technique to cut timber and tree rings tell age 6700BC to present |
| stone mortat & pedestle | hollowed stone bowl and masher for nuts berries pigments |
| Colorado River | 1450m long SW from Colorado Divide to Gulf of CA, formed Grand Canyon 9 million yrs ago |
| Rio Grande River | 1896 m long SW Co to Gulf of Mexico Forms US southern border w/ Mexico |
| Pueblo culture music | foot drums, tamborines, reed flutr, trtle shell rattles used to connect to spirit world |
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