Cliff DwellersThe Anasazi

Location/Time

1000Anasazi & agriculture

753Rome

1276 cliff dwellings abandoned

Eyeglasses invented 1290

Anasazi at peak1100BC AD

Food

C.B.SCorn Beans, and Squash

Agriculture= Lots of people and

sedentary life

Economic System

Trade – shells from CA and

parrots from Mexico

Turquoise – source of wealth

Buildings

Apartment-style houses at Mesa Verde were built into canyon walls—called

Pueblos

Adobe brick

Tools

Metate

Sandals and WeavingStone Tools Calendar

Art

Petroglyphs

Pottery