Ancestors were the Anasazis

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Pueblo Indians

• Ancestors were the Anasazis
• Anasazi is a Navajo word meaning the ancient
  ones or the ancient enemies.
• Settled in Four Corners between 1 AD and 1300 AD

• Built cliff dwellings and pueblos
  (apartment-house style villages)
• Produced fine baskets, pottery, cloth, ornaments
  and tools
• Farmers
• Developed a system of trading

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Elements of a Myth

• Title introduces the main characters
• Simple characters
• Simple plot
• Explain events in nature in a way that is easier
  to understand
• Usually told from generation to generation
• Usually explains how something came to be

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Pottery
Uses of

• Cooking
• Storing food and water
• Serving food and water

• Trading for food, salt, and hides
• Religious ceremonies
• Burials

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Pottery
What did it look like?

• Bowls
• Black on red designs
• Jars

• Black on white designs
• Plain
• Vases

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Pottery
Why is it important?

• Contains hidden clues about the people who made
  it.
• Material (temper) used to make pottery can be
  traced to a geological area where the pottery was
  made.
• Its surface may retain pollen from food plants or
  scrapings from a meal which tells the type of
  food the people ate.

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Pottery
Why is it important?

• Ceramic fragments ("sherds") can indirectly show
  when a household or village was occupied.
• Pottery can be sorted into categories based
  traits such as color, texture, decoration and
  vessel shape.
• Archaeologists often name a ceramic type after
  the place where the pottery of that style was
  first found.

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Pottery
How was it made?

• Preparation collected lumps of clay, laid clay
  out in the sun to dry
• Modeling pats clay into a cone, constantly
  turns clay creating a base to build the coils on,
  clay is thinned and shaped
• Finishing allowed to dry 2 to 4 days, rubbed
  with sand and then a wet cloth
• Decorated using colors from natural sources
• Fired in an outdoor oven

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Coiling a pot
Ready to fire
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Outdoor oven
Finished pot
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Bowls
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Black on white
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Black on Red
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Plain
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Vases
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Jars