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The Ancestral Puebloans, also known as the Anasazi and by the earlier term the Basketmaker-Pueblo culture, were an ancient Native American culture that spanned the present-day Four Corners region of the United States, comprising southeastern Utah, northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado.
Ruins of Pueblo Bonito, in Chaco Canyon. By about 700 to 900 CE, the Puebloans began to move away from ancient pit houses dug in cliffs and to construct connected rectangular rooms arranged in apartment-like structures made of adobe and adapted to sites.
The ancient population centers such as Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde, and Bandelier for which the Ancestral Puebloans are renowned consisted of apartment-like complexes and structures made from stone, adobe mud, and other local material, or were carved into the sides of canyon walls.
Pueblo peoples have lived in the American Southwest for millennia and descend from the ancestral Puebloans. [3] The term Anasazi is sometimes used to refer to ancestral Pueblo people, but it is now largely avoided. Anasazi is a Navajo word that means Ancient Ones or Ancient Enemy, hence Pueblo peoples' rejection of it (see exonym). [4]
Pueblo peoples Nearest town (modern name) Location Type Description Photo Hovenweep Castle: Anasazi: Bluff: Ruins located in Hovenweep National Monument. Square Tower Anasazi Bluff Ruins located in Hovenweep National Monument. Cutthroat Castle: Anasazi Bluff Ruins located in Hovenweep National Monument. Horseshoe: Anasazi Bluff
An active pueblo that is home of one of the 21 federally recognized Pueblos. Pilabó: Tiwa Socorro Great house Ruins. Once the home of the Piro Pueblo, located at the site of the present town of the city of Socorro. Poblazon: Bernalillo Ruins. Pojoaque: Tewa Great house An active pueblo that is home of one of the 21 federally recognized Pueblos ...
Woods Canyon Pueblo, also known as Wood Canyon Ruin, was a Northern San Juan pueblo inhabited during the broad 1000 to 1499 period [Ancient Pueblo People left southwestern Colorado by 1300]. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. [17] Ruins consisting of as many as 200 rooms, 50 kivas, and 16 towers, and possibly a plaza.
Ruins of a multistoried pueblo of 200–250 rooms, AD 1275–1325 (late Pueblo III Era and/or early Pueblo IV Era). Betatakin: Ancestral Pueblo Kayenta: Navajo Reservation: Grand house Ruins located at the Navajo National Monument. Box Canyon Ruins: Flagstaff Ruins located in the Wupatki National Monument. Canyon Creek Ruins: Salado