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¶ … Anasazi are the ancestors of the modern Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Arizona and occupied that region of the southwest west for well over a thousand years. They were avid farmers, using modern dry farming methods, "relying on water in the soil from melted snow, summer rainstorms and occasional springs" (Ancestral pg).
Their crops included beans, squash, and corn. Modern day dry farming produces roughly 14 bushels of corn per acre, archaeologists estimate the Anasazi produced up to 40 bushels per acre. Huge storerooms for surplus food were prominent features of Anasazi communities. Although, the garden plots attracted game such as rabbits, birds, and mice, they "also hunted deer and elk in the mountains, and antelope and bighorn sheep at lower elevations"...
Aside from farming and hunting the Anasazi also supplemented their diets with pinon nuts, sunflower and other seeds, and yucca plants.
The Anasazi were industrious, inventive and creative. Their communities consisted of cliff dwellings and pueblos, not unlike modern day apartment and condo style villages (Ancestral pg). As their population grew and new communities began to surface, the Anasazi "exchanged goods through an elaborate trade network" which can be likened to today's modern commodities trading (Ancestral pg). They traded with other cultures in western North America, bringing exotic items from the Pacific coast and the Gulf of Mexico, passing these goods from group to group (Ancestral pg). Pottery and surplus corn might be…
Works Cited
The Ancestral Pueblos: The Anasazi." The Anasazi Heritage Center. http://www.co.blm.gov/ahc/anasazi.htm#Who.(accessed 11-11-2002).
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