Geography
Vocabulary
Anasazi
Art
Remember the Mound Builders
100
What are the four states the Anasazi lived in?
Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona
100
What is an Archeologist?
A person who digs up the past
100
What do we think Kivas were used for?
ceremonies
100
The Anasazi first made these
baskets
100
What river were the Mound Builders near?
Mississippi River
200
What do you call the area where the only four states come together in the United States?
Four Corners
200
Archeologist look at ______________ in order to learn more about people.
artifacts
200
What are the 3 sisters? (3 major crops)
corn/maize, squash and beans
200
eventually the Anasazi learned to make these and create designs of black, brown and red
pottery
200
Why were they called the mound builders?
because they built mounds
300
A mesa looks like a?
table
300
Rock carvings and rock drawings
petroglyphs and pictographs
300
Anasazi believed in many super beings that dealt with..
nature
300
what were two major Anasazi drawings
serpent and star
300
What was the largest mound city?
Cahokia
400
This was considered the largest and main Anasazi site that was eventually abandoned
Chaco Canyon
400
What do the Navajos call the Anasazi?
The "Ancient Ones"
400
Why do archeologists believe the Anasazi may have been involved in cannibalism?
similar butchering, discarding and cooking of animal and human bones
400
What was Kokopeli playing?
flute
400
Two things archeologists found inside the mounds
jewelry, pottery, dead and arrow heads
500
The Anasazi eventually abandoned the ground to live where?
Cliffs
500
What is cannibalism?
eating other human beings
500
Who claim to be descendants of the Anasazi?
Pueblo and Hopi
500
Most pottery was made by..
women and designs were passed down from mother to daughter
500
True or False the Mound Builders left us a written record
False
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