Anasazi

to plant. The text states, “Andean farmers also battled poor soil, bad frosts, and frequent droughts.” The Incas developed breeds of crops.This shows that the Andean farmers had ways that offered simple solutions to help protect their harvest. The Anasazi,resided in the Four Corners of the region. The text states, “Yet in the Andes people called the Incas built a great civilization and an empire that they named Tahuantinsuyu, “the Four Quarters of

known to be pioneers of vast and complex irrigation systems in southern Arizona that helped them to support one of the largest populations in pre contact North America. Anasazi: Hohokam's neighbors to the north, in what is known as the four corners of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah, known as the Anasazi. The Anasazi adapted corns, beans and squash to the relatively high altitude of the Colorado Plateau and soon parlayed their growing surplus and prosperity into societies of considerable

The Anasazi were living in pueblos, villages of large, apartment-style compounds made of stone and adobe. Even though the pueblos were amazing many were abandoned around 1200. The reason for this was probably because of a lengthened drought. Beyond the Great

Mesa Verde National Park is located in Southwest Colorado and in 1906 it was established as a park in order to preserve the structures that were built by the first settlers in the area. Mesa Verde is about 51,122 acres and has about 8 canyons within it. While its name might suggest that it’s a mesa, Mesa Verde is actually a cuesta (E. Tuttle, Harris, S. Tuttle, 2004). Mesa Verde’s history starts off around 500 A.D with the discovery of pit houses, which was one of the few signs that it was a place

in Anasazi Cannibalism? p. 1).      All cannibalism is not the same. One way to classify cannibalism is by who is eaten. There are three ways: autocannibalism--eating parts of oneself (not including common traits such as nail biting);

. Those who lived in America long before us were genetically the same as us, however in terms of communication and thought processing they were not. They did not use a system of writing, but they did have many spoken languages. Today everything that is unknown about them is because it happened before the writing system was created. Archaeologists are able to come up with conclusions on what was not written by studying the masses of artifacts the ancient Americans created. The first humans that arrived

introduced from Mesoamerica 1. Maize was depended on a. Caused the launch of large irrigation projects b. Centralized political power increased c. Social stratification(classes) grew v. Political traditions were different 1. In the SW desert, the Anasazi based their structures, political and social, around age and your kin 2. In the E river valleys, the structures were more focused around status (hierarchy) a. A chief ruled a political center which owned small towns b. Southwestern Desert Cultures

Early North American cultures often used their art to express their spiritual rituals and beliefs. North American Eastern Woodlanders were an established, settled community. Their burial rituals led them to build great burial mounds such as the Serpent Mound in Ohio. The Eastern Woodlanders believed that tobacco was sacred, and that smoking it was a form of prayer. It is interesting that, although the tobacco originated in the South and was brought North, the stone pipe originated in the North. These

Picture yourself as a ghostly spectator who is looking onto future archaeologists rummaging through the remnants of your old house. They are picking up and evaluating your old books, electronics, and clothes and considering what each item would have been used for, and how did this individual’s society come to be a ruinous, abandoned mess. This is an impossible imagination for someone who has yet to read Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond. In his book, he states that

When the Europeans conquered the Native Americans; both groups had little understanding of each other, especially their cultures. The Native Americans had a rich through history that allowed them to be almost as developed as the Europeans. However, the Europeans overlooked this because the Native Americans had not established the same man-made medical and agricultural developments as the Europeans. Conversely, the Native Americans thought that the Europeans were too concerned with dead objects, and