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IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
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"The Navajo called them the Anasazi: an enigmatic race of southwestern cliff dwellers. For centuries, the sudden disappearance of this proud and noble people has baffled historians. Summoned to a dark desert plateau by a desperate letter form an old friend, renowned investigator Mike Raglan is drawn into a world of mystery, violence, and explosive revelations. Crossing the border beyond the laws of man and nature, he will learn the astonishing legacy...
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Anasazi, the Navajos' name for the "Ancient Ones" who preceded them into the Southwest, is the nickname of Richard Wetherill, who devoted his life to a search for remains of these vanished peoples. He discovered the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde and Kiet Siel and the Basket Maker sites at Grand Gulch, Utah, and at Chaco Canyon he initiated the excavation of Pueblo Bonito, the largest prehistoric ruin in the United States. His discoveries are among...
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"Rock art, a modern misnomer that originated in Europe, is a categorical term that includes purposeful human modification of in-place rock surfaces by pecking, scratching, incising, engraving, drilling, carving, grinding, and painting to produce preconceived images. Thus, the bedrock grinding surfaces resulting from grinding activities to produce seed flour are not considered rock art, nor is a decorated pebble considered rock art."
10) The Visitant
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Anasazi mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 21
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2012
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The Anasazi (the Ancestorial Puebloans) ruins found throughout the Four Corners area of Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico stand as testimonial to their advancing growth and ambitious way of life. With no more than their hands, sweat of brow, and use of Stone Age tools, they built large, beautiful pueblos. These stone buildings would probably still be standing today, if the Anasazi had not attempted to destroy them in their final exodus, brought...
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2007
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Lucy Lewis and her daughters, Emma and Dolores, continue to make fine art pottery much the same way as their Native American ancestors, the Anasazi, did over a thousand years ago. Grinding the raw clay and old pots shards. Mixing the clay. Forming the bowl. Building the coils. Scraping and polishing . Applying white slip. Making mineral paints. Painting the pots with traditional designs. And firing the pots in primative kilns.
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