Ancestral Puebloans

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The Ancestral Puebloans were a Native American culture of the U.S. Southwest known for their sophisticated cliff dwellings, multi-story stone and adobe villages, and complex agricultural and ceremonial traditions.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American people ⓘ
ancient culture ⓘ
archaeological culture ⓘ
prehistoric society ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Ancestral Puebloans ⓘ
surface form: Anasazi

Ancestral Puebloans ⓘ
surface form: Ancestral Pueblo Peoples
archaeologicalRegion Ancestral Puebloans self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Ancestral Puebloan culture area
artForm black-on-white pottery ⓘ
petroglyphs ⓘ
pictographs ⓘ
polychrome pottery ⓘ
rock art ⓘ
builtStructureType cliff dwellings ⓘ
great kivas ⓘ
pit houses ⓘ
pueblos ⓘ
cosmologyFeature sipapu concept ⓘ
cultivated beans ⓘ
cotton ⓘ
maize ⓘ
squash ⓘ
declineFactors drought ⓘ
migration ⓘ
resource depletion ⓘ
social conflict ⓘ
descendedInto Hopi people ⓘ
surface form: Hopi

Pueblo peoples ⓘ
surface form: Rio Grande Pueblo peoples

Zuni people ⓘ
surface form: Zuni

modern Pueblo peoples ⓘ
engagedIn long-distance trade ⓘ
ethnicGroupOf United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
flourished c. 100 CE ⓘ
flourishedUntil c. 1600 CE ⓘ
knownFor adobe architecture ⓘ
ceremonial centers ⓘ
cliff dwellings ⓘ
complex irrigation agriculture ⓘ
great houses ⓘ
kivas ⓘ
multi-story stone pueblos ⓘ
road systems ⓘ
languageFamily Keresan languages ⓘ
Puebloan languages ⓘ
surface form: Tanoan languages

Zuni language isolate ⓘ
locatedIn southwestern United States ⓘ
surface form: American Southwest

Colorado Plateau ⓘ
Four Corners region ⓘ
present-day Arizona ⓘ
present-day Colorado ⓘ
present-day New Mexico ⓘ
present-day Utah ⓘ
majorSite Aztec Ruins ⓘ
Bandelier National Monument ⓘ
Canyon de Chelly National Monument ⓘ
surface form: Canyon de Chelly

Chaco Culture National Historical Park ⓘ
surface form: Chaco Canyon

Cliff Palace ⓘ
Hovenweep National Monument ⓘ
surface form: Hovenweep

Mesa Verde National Park ⓘ
surface form: Mesa Verde

Pueblo Bonito ⓘ
materialCulture basketry ⓘ
turquoise ornaments ⓘ
woven cotton textiles ⓘ
practiced dryland farming ⓘ
predecessorOf historic Pueblo cultures ⓘ
recognizedBy National Park Service ⓘ
religion Puebloan traditional religion ⓘ
ritualStructure great kiva ⓘ
kiva ⓘ
socialOrganization clan systems ⓘ
matrilineal descent (in many groups) ⓘ
village-based communities ⓘ
studiedInDiscipline Southwestern archaeology ⓘ
anthropology ⓘ
timePeriod Archaic period ⓘ
Basketmaker II period ⓘ
Basketmaker III period ⓘ
Pueblo I period ⓘ
Pueblo II period ⓘ
Pueblo III period ⓘ
Pueblo IV period ⓘ
tradedFor copper bells ⓘ
macaw feathers ⓘ
turquoise ⓘ
tradedWith Hohokam culture ⓘ
surface form: Hohokam

Mesoamerican cultures ⓘ
Mogollon culture ⓘ
surface form: Mogollon
used check dams ⓘ
terracing ⓘ
water control systems ⓘ

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this entity surface form: Ancestral Puebloan
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this entity surface form: Ancestral Pueblo people
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this entity surface form: Ancestral Puebloan