(1) The Anasazi culture was stressed and erupted into warfare.

(2) Any of several early periods of Anasazi culture preceding the Pueblo periods and characterized by the use of wicker basketry, dry farming, and coiled pottery.

(3) The Anasazi culture were also skilled at forming the natural clays into pottery.

(4) As the Anasazi chiefs found, they could get away with those policies for a while, but ultimately they bought themselves the privilege of being merely the last to starve.

(5) One prominent group were the Anasazi who lived in the present day Northeastern Arizona and surrounding areas.

(6) The Anasazi family was matrilineal ; that is, descent was traced through the female.

(7) Disc 4 : Anasazi, The Blessing Way ( with audio commentary by Bob Goodwin )(), Paper Clip.

(8) The Anasazi used hardened dry mud, called adobe, along with sandstone to form intricate buildings and were sometimes found high in the natural overhangs of the mesas.

(9) The Anasazi culture used these cave-like overhangs in the side of steep mesas as shelter from the brief, fierce southwestern storms.

(10) Bordering the Anasazi culture in the north, a separate civilization emerged in southern Arizona, called the Hohokam.

(11) The Anasazi built cliff dwellings in the southwestern United States.

(12) Anasazi, meaning "ancient people, " is the name given to prehistoric Native Americans who lived in the Four Corners region of the United States, where Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado meet.

(13) The Anasazi made arrowheads by chipping away at pieces of glassy obsidian (black) and chert (grey and red) until they became sharp.

(14) New research suggests that the Anasazi dispersed; abandoning the intricate buildings and moving towards smaller settlements to utilize the limited water that existed.

(15) Many tools used by the ancient Anasazi Indians have been found by archaeologists.

(16) The Anasazi, who eventually became the Pueblo Indians, are known for the amazing cliff dwellings they built into the region's large sandstone formations.

(17) The definitive (and gruesome) proof came with the discovery of the human muscle protein myoglobin in the fossilized human feces of a prehistoric Anasazi pueblo Indian.

(18) Between 900 - 1130 AD a period of relatively wet conditions allowed the Anasazi people to flourish.

(19) Some ancient people did it as a means of survival when times were difficult and sometimes there were no other alternatives, like the Anasazi.

(20) The nearly 600 stone-and-mortar cliff houses notched by the ancient Anasazi into precipitous canyon walls are the most compelling feature of Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park.

(21) The ruins in Colorado had been home to the ancestors of the present day members of the Pueblo tribes. They were named Anasazi, or ancient ones, by the Navajo Indians.