did they go back to the previous world or forward? Did the aliens take 'em? What happened to them?
2006-09-13 05:35:44 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No one really knows where the Anasazi tribe disappeared to. There are lots of theories out there, but we don't know for sure. Here is an interesting site about the Anasazi: http://www.desertusa.com/ind1/ind_new/ind10.html
Chaco Canyon was the most famous Anasazi site. It seems to have died out around the 12th century, but other sites were found. I would opt for the remaining women and children being assimilated into other tribes.
San Juan/Mesa Verde people and Kayenta peoples are related to the Anasazi.
2006-09-21 05:29:18 · answer #1 · answered by Ding-Ding 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A good question. The disappearance of the Anasazi of Arizona and New Mexico remains a mystery. Some intellectuals propose that the early predecessors of the Apache may have decimated them and kept a remainder with them to merge by marriage, etc.
Yet the Anasazi's living style could have held the Apache at bay for long periods until their food and water ran out.
2006-09-13 05:44:21 · answer #2 · answered by Guitarpicker 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nobody knows. There are only theories. It is interesting to me that the Anasazis in all areas disappeared at the same time. Speculation includes war, disease and starvation. Some or none of this might be true.
2006-09-13 05:38:49 · answer #3 · answered by beez 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Their ecosystem collapsed due to over-exploitation, leading to scarcity of food and other resources, leading to a collapse of civil authority culminating in internal warfare, cannibalism, and the like. Based on pottery elements, etc., that turn up in other tribes at about the time the Anasazi left their historical home, it appears that survivors became refugees and merged into other tribes in the vicinity. You might prefer your goofy imaginings, but the evidence suggests something much more common and ordinary -- and hard to accept for people who don't believe in taking of our environment today.
2006-09-13 07:39:52 · answer #4 · answered by BoredBookworm 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Following a series of natural and societal upheavals in the 12th century CE, the remaining members of that culture quietly assimilated into the Pueblo cultures just beginning.
The natural events were: volcanic eruptions all over the Southwest, extreme drought, and disease brought by traders against which they had no natural immunity. Societally, possibly worst of all, a new set of gods. Brought by those same traders from the south, these new concepts were not of gentle fertility deities, but of fierce and bloodthirsty war gods. In the end, the leaders of each community decimated their people by vying for prominence in the whole region. Add the losses due to sickness and starvation and you lose a culture in a hurry that way.
2006-09-13 05:43:43 · answer #5 · answered by Granny Annie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Iriquoi, Yavapai are decendents of the anasazi
2006-09-13 05:37:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who or what were the Anasazis?
2006-09-13 05:43:21 · answer #7 · answered by MamaBear 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Scotty beamed them up. LOL!! Well, maybe not Scotty exactly, but somebody beamed them up.
2006-09-13 05:38:07 · answer #8 · answered by Goddess of Nuts PBUH 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They just passed on, I really do not know if they'll have a better life!!
2006-09-13 05:39:12 · answer #9 · answered by alfonso 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They were the old ones. Now they are newer.
2006-09-13 05:38:28 · answer #10 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋