what happend to the anasazi tribe?

Question

why and what happend

Answer 1

Around 1000 AD, the Anasazi started building masonry houses.They began to build impressive dwellings, becoming expert stone masons. They increased the frequency and design of pottery making and discovered the use of the bow and arrow. By 1200 AD, village locations were being picked in spots that were safer and harder to attack indicating that war and violence were increasing. After that, for reasons largely unexplained, the Anasazi began leaving their homes and by 1300A.D, the Anasazi had disappeared. Their disappearence from the Four Corners area has been attributed to prolonged drought and, or, the aforementioned attacks by other tribes.

Answer 2

The Anasazi people still exist today. The modern Hopi tribe (in Arizona) and the Keresan, Tiwa, Towa, Tewa and Zuni tribes (in New Mexico) are all direct descendants of the Anasazi. Each of these groups have legends and stories about their villages being associated with specific ruins or cliff dwellings in the past. In fact, most archaeologists and historians today refer to the Anasazi as the 'Ancestral Puebloan' instead to reflect that they are the ancestors of the modern pueblo tribes.

The term 'Anasazi' (which means 'enemy ancestor' in Navajo) was given to cliff dwellings and ruins by explorer Richard Wetherill and archaeologist A. V. Kidder in the early 1900s. The people who lived in the ruins never called themselves 'Ansazi', nor is it likely that they were ever part of a single united tribe, but rather were probably divided similar to the way the modern pueblos are (with each tribe having a different language and slightly different customs).

Sometime between 1250 to 1350AD, the Ancestral Puebloan cultures of the southwest underwent major changes and termoil with many cities being abandoned and new ones being founded (including many of the modern pueblo villages). The exact causes are uncertain, but most scholars believe that they had reached the peak population that the limited farmland and water could sustain. When a prolonged drought hit, there was wide spread starvation and villages began fighting and raiding each other for food. Eventually, the survivors consolidated into a few areas with the best resources, resulting in the villages that exist today.

Few people today believe that the Navajo or Apache (or any other outside tribe) played a significant role in the collapse since most evidence suggests that the Apache and Navajo did not enter the southwest until around 1400AD and without horses (which came with the Europeans) it is unlikely they could have been much of a threat to the larger and better protected pueblos.

So to summarize... the Anasazi (aka 'Ancestral Puebloan') people did not disappear, they just abandoned some places and relocated in others, just like people do today.

Answer 3

The direct ancestors of the Hopi each and every physique is the Anasazi. different tribes that connect their ancestral lines to the Anasazi are the Zuni and the Ute. My human beings and the Apache are no longer concerning them, for the reason that the two our tribes talk a similar language (Diné bizaad) and we've not any link to the cliff dwellers. relaxing actuality!: The call Anasazi is definitely a Navajo be conscious, which potential "historical enemies". So, we weren't particularly pal-pal. desire I Helped <3

Answer 4

The warlike Navajo's moved in and ran them off.... some say the present day Hopi are the Anasazi descendants.

Answer 5

I believe they were the ancestors of the Hopi. I cannot understand why we insist in calling them primitive when they were able to calculate seasons by analyzing the rotation of the equinoxes. Years ago, I found an article in either Times or Newsweek on how they used what looks like a modern Christian cross and the image the sun made against it to calculate the time of the day.

Boaz.

Answer 6

How Did The Anasazi Disappear