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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024A•na•sa•zi (ä′nə sä′zē),USA pronunciation n., pl. -zis, (esp. collectively) -zi for 2.- Archaeologya Basket Maker-Pueblo culture of the plateau region of northern Arizona and New Mexico and of southern Utah and Colorado, dating probably from a.d. 100 to 1300.
- Archaeologya member of the people producing this culture.
adj. - Anthropology, Archaeologyof, pertaining to, or characteristic of this culture or its people:the Anasazi communities.
- Navajo ’anaasází ancient inhabitants of the Pueblo ruins, literally, aliens' ancestors ('anaa- enemy, alien + -sází ancestor(s), ancestral)
- term introduced in 1936 by U.south, southern. archaeologist Alfred V. Kidder (1885-1963)
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