Anasazi
Four Corners
Mesa Verde, Colorado
Anasazi
“Ancient Enemies”
Navaho
Yucca Plant
Harvest
Dance
Kiva
Anasazi Ball Field
Chaco Canyon
Rio Grande
Pueblos
Yucca Plant fibers for painting
• Art Forms
Farmed corn, squash and beans
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Survival
Great Creator, all things have a spirit
• Religion
Ball Games
• Recreation
Harvest ceremony to thank God for crops
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Religion
Social Institutions
Survival
Art Forms
Mountains and plateaus
• Habitat
Men hunt and build roads
• Division of Labor
• Survival
Meetings in Kivas to make laws
• Political institutions
Adobe (sun dried bricks) for homes
• Survival
All must participate in religion
• Religion
• Political Institutions
Animal hide clothing
Yucca sandals
• Survival
All Anasazi help at Harvest time
• Survival
Colorado River
• Habitat
Women make clay pots
• Division of Labor
• Art Forms
• Survival
Priests most important people
• Religion
• Division of labor
Hunted deer, elk, rabbit and pronghorn
• Survival
All male council makes laws
• Political Institutions
Hot, dry desert
• Habitat
Women care for children and cook
• Division of labor
Singing and dancing
• Recreation
Lookout towers
• Survival
Flutes made from reeds
• Recreation
• Art forms
Wood from trees near mountains
for fires
• Survival