Ancestral Puebloans #1

What does "Anasazi" mean?

• ancient friends

• ancient enemies

• ancient people

• ancient tribe

What is a kiva?

• an underground, circular room

• an underground food storage room

• a special kind of basket for cooking

• a special kind of spear for ceremonies

What are some possible explanations for the disappearance of the Ancestral Puebloans?

• long period of drought

• overpopulation

• an ice age

• deforestation

Which tribes today may be descendants of the Ancestral Puebloans?

• Hopi, Navajo, Cheyenne, Sioux

• Sioux, Hopi, Pueblo, Cheyenne

• Hopi, Zuni, Tewa, Pueblo

• Navajo, Sioux, Hopi, Pueblo

How did the Basketmakers use

baskets to cook food?

• they lined the basket with hot mud which cooked the food

• they put food in the basket and set it out in the hot sun

• they put food in the basket and put the basket over a fire

• they dropped hot stones in the water which would heat the water

  and cook the food.

What are some of the changes or

advancement that occurred in the

Modified Basketmaker Period?

(AD 450-750)

• they made clay pottery

• they learned to make Pit house

  dwellings

• they hunted with bows and arrows

• they made tipis from buffalo hides

How do we know that Classic

Pueblo People (AD 1100-1300)

traded with other cultures?

• they had beaver pelts and metal objects

• they had fish, nets, and arrowheads

• they had cotton, turquoise and seashells

• they had jewelry, hides and tools

What was an atlatl?

• a spear-thrower used for hunting

• a type of basket used for cooking

• an underground, circular room

• an underground room used for the sick

What did the first

Basketmakers in

AD 1-450 live in?

• pit houses

• tipis

• caves

• underground rooms

What is a result of the evolving

technology that moved the

Ancestral Puebloans from a

nomadic to a sedentary lifestyle? Choose all that are correct.

• they spent less time on capturing their food

• they spent more time on beauty and decoration

• they placed more value on trade goods

• they spent more time making more sophisiticated housing