A photo gallery of Anasazi Ruins in southeastern Utah, including in Hovenweep, Cedar Mesa and the Bears Ears regions.
The Anasazi (also known under the wider descriptor Ancestral Puebloans), were a culture of Native Americans that inhabited the Four Corners region of Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico from about 1 A.D. to 1300 A.D. However, depending on where you draw the line on what separates the Anasazi from earlier groups that inhabited the region, the start date may go back as far as 1500 B.C. The Anasazi are known best for their development of a mostly sedentary people rather than past tribes of migrating hunters and gathers. They engaged significantly in agriculture, growing beans, squash and corn, and developed monumental architecture to house their families, provide a defense against hostile neighbors, and to protect their food supply from rodents and other animals.