Puebloan

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• The strongest mega-drought occurred during the second half of the 1200s and is believed to have played an important role in the abandonment of ancient Puebloan cultural centers throughout the Southwest.

  Blog text (1)

• Settlers copied the techniques and designs of the Puebloan tribes that had been in this region for thousands of years before.

  Academic text (2018)

• Closer to home, most of the more significant Puebloan sites of the Southwestern United States have at one time or another suffered massive destruction at the hands of looters.

  Academic text (1996)

• Visits to archaeological sites under excavation by Crow Canyon researchers will give attendees a blend of archaeological and Puebloan perspectives of the sites.

  Academic text (1997)

• Yet on another level, they emerged as a site of resistance against government efforts at assimilation, reaffirming the importance of ceremonial dances as crucial for Puebloan cultural survival.

  Academic text (1994)

• Archeologists have long recognized that when Puebloan people in general and Hopis specifically abandon rooms or villages, they prefer salvaging well-seasoned construction beams to felling living trees.

  Academic text (1993)

• It was, after all, the presumed ancestors of today's Puebloan populations who built, hundreds and sometimes thousands of years ago, sophisticated solar and lunar "clocks" into their buildings, such as Holly House at Hovenweep or Casa.

  Academic text (1990)

• Puebloan people are renowned for their exquisite sun-watching and ceremonial timing and surely recognize the differences between sunwise and anti-sunwise movement, even if Swan does not seem to distinguish between them correctly.

  Academic text (1990)

• Pena's seeming indifference to perspective gains in complexity when viewed through Puebloan worldviews, which emphasize reciprocity in relationships among humans and between humans and their environs.

  Academic text (1994)

• The festival celebrates traditional Puebloan music, dance, and craft-making each year.

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