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Anasazi Culture-Mr B.-SS

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Anasazi (2)   show
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Pueblo Culture   show
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Mesa verde   show
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show Culture that existed from about 1200 BC to 1300 AD in the 4 corners of the SW U.S. 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.  
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show Believed to be desended from the ancient Puebloan cultures who constucted large aapartment-house complexes in NE Arizona and NW New Mexico along the Mongollon Rim, form 1100-1300 AD, when they abandoned their large villages.  
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Zuni   show
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show aka "Dene" people were hunter- gatherers, until they adopted Pueblo life. Known for raising sheep, blanket eaving, and pottery. The Navajo Reservation in AZ is the largest in the USA.  
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show An ancient pueblo belonging to a Taos {Nothern Tiwa} speaking native American tribe of Pueblo people. Still inabited, it is approximately 1000 years old and is and lies about 1 mile 1.6 km north of the modren city of Taos, New Mexico.  
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show Known as "sky city", is a Native American pueblo built on top of a 367- foot sandstone mesa in New Mexico. 1100 AD. It is one of the oldest continously inhabited communtities within the USA. Known for distintive orange, black, and white pottery.  
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show A hard, sedimentary cyrstalline form of the mineral quartz; can be "flaked" with a harder stone to make arrowheads, spearpoints,etc.  
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show An extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply. Generally, this occurs when a region recieves consistently below average precipiation (rain or snow)  
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show Spanish soldiers who conquered Mexico and the American Southwest and establihed a network of settlements (16-18th century AD) Forced indians  
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Sandpainting   show
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show (MAH-no){Spanish for hand} Grinding stone. A hand-held stone used to grind grain, nuts and seeds on the larger table.  
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Metate   show
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show The oldest, continually inhabited pueblo in America, naer the Upper Rio Grande Canyon (NW)  
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Colorado Plateau   show
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Sedentary   show
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show Cultivating plants and seeds for food  
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Kiva(Great Kiva)   show
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pictographs   show
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Pottery   show
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Yucca Plant   show
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show Pueblo peoples wove decorative baskets and sandals from the fibers of the Yucca Plant. They wove colorful, intricate blankets form sheep's wool. Dyed with natural plant and rock materials.  
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Cliff dwellers   show
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Hogan   show
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Wickiup   show
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show Nomadic tribes who raided and plundered agricultural pueblos.  
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show Storage room for grain made of adobe mud bricks, stone and/or wood frames. Usually in high cliff locations to protect from animals and raiding tribes.  
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show {"Kachina hump" probally of Hopi/Zuni origin} A well known mythological hump-backed flute player in most Southwestern Pueblo cultures. Among other things, this spiritual figure repersents fertiltiy and rain.  
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Moqui or Moki (Moh-key)   show
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show Rock carving or rock "art" made by "pecking" the surface with another rock. Ex. "Newspaper Rock" in Holbrook, Arizona  
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Pinon (Peenyhone)   show
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show (PWEB-loh boh-NEE-toh){Spanish for "pretty village"} the most famous Great House at Chaco Canyon.  
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Puebloan   show
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show 1. The naval of the earth from which distant Puebloan ancestors are said to have emerged as they entered the present world. 2. The small hole or indentation in the floor of a kiva which symbolizes the people's Earthly origin.  
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show In hand spinning, the spindle is a rounded wooden rod for twisting cotton fibers into thread. The whorl is a sort of flywheel that regulates the speed of the spinning wheel.  
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Teosinte(Tee-oh-SIN-tee)   show
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Tree-ring dating   show
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show Hollowed stone bowl and mashing toolused to grind maize,nuts,berries,pigments.  
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show 1,450 miles long river that flows southwest from the Continental Divideto the Gulf or California. It's powerful waters formed the Grand Canyon over 9 million years.  
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Rio Grande River   show
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show Foot drums,tamborines,reed flute,turtle shells used to create connections to spirit world and reflect sounds of the natural landscape.  
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