anasazi

Thân thiện

A person studies an ancient Anasazi cliff dwelling.

Definition

Noun: 1. A member of an ancient Native American culture: An Anasazi was a person belonging to a prehistoric Native American civilization that flourished in the southwestern United States, particularly in the Four Corners region (southern Colorado, southeastern Utah, northern Arizona, and northwestern New Mexico). This culture is known for its distinctive architecture, including multi-story pueblos and cliff dwellings.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • The archaeologist studied the tools and pottery left behind by the Anasazi.
  • Evidence suggests the Anasazi were skilled farmers, cultivating corn, beans, and squash in the arid landscape.

Advanced Usage

• The term "Anasazi" is a Navajo word often translated as "ancient enemies" or "ancient ones." Some modern Pueblo peoples, who are considered descendants of this culture, prefer terms like "Ancestral Puebloans" or "Ancestral Pueblo People." In academic and respectful contemporary usage, these alternative terms are increasingly common.
  • Many scholars now use the term "Ancestral Puebloans" to refer to the culture historically called the Anasazi.

Variants and Related Words

• Ancestral Puebloan(s) (n): A modern, preferred term for the ancient culture and people previously referred to as the Anasazi.
• Pueblo (n): Refers both to the distinctive apartment-like stone and adobe buildings of these cultures and to the modern Native American communities descended from them.
• Cliff dwelling (n): A type of housing, often built into alcoves in cliff faces, for which the Anasazi/Ancestral Puebloans are famous.

Synonyms

• Ancestral Puebloan: (Preferred modern synonym)
• Ancient Pueblo People: (Descriptive synonym)
• Prehistoric Southwestern culture: (Broad categorical synonym)

Related Phrases and Concepts

• "Anasazi culture": Refers to the totality of the social, architectural, and artistic practices of this ancient people.
  • The abandonment of the major Anasazi cultural centers around 1300 CE is a topic of much research.
• "Anasazi pottery": Denotes the distinctive black-on-white ceramic styles produced by this culture.
  • The museum has an excellent collection of Anasazi pottery.

Học thuật

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

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