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The Virgin Anasazi and the Pan-Southwestern Trade System, A.D. 900–1150

Pages 3-24 | Published online: 25 Jul 2016
 

ABSTRACT

Anasazi expansion during the period A.D. 700 to 1150 involved the Virgin Anasazi in a senes of complex political and economic relationships with other Southwestern polities linked in a Pan-Southwestern trading system. The relationship was particularly intense during the period A.D. 900 to 1150, when the Chaco system may have been involved in a “world system” relationship with the Toltec, or other Mesoamerican groups. Due to their access to rare resources such as turquoise and salt, and other important resources such as cotton, the Virgin Anasazi of Lost City formed a vital portion of the larger trade system, extracting resources and sending them eastward. At the same time the Virgin Anasazi carried on extensive regional and local trade. The collapse of the Chaco polity in the twelfth century A.D. seems to have been an important factor in the collapse of the Virgin Anasazi and their withdrawal from southern Nevada, an area they had occupied for nearly 1200 years.

RESUMEN

La expansión anazasi durante la época A D. 700 hasta A.D. 1150 enredó a los anazasi virgin en una serie de complejas relaciones políticas y económicas con otros sistemas eslabonados en un sistema de intercambio pansuroeste. Las relaciones fueron particularmente fuertes durante la época A.D. 900 hasta 1150, cuando el sistema Chaco quizá era parte de una relación de “sistema mundial” con los toltecas u otros grupos mesoamericanos. Debido a su acceso a recursos raros como la turquesa y la sal, e otros importantes recursos como el algodón, los Anazasi Virgin del Lost City (Pueblo Perdido) formaron una parte esencial del más grande sistema de intercambio, sacando recursos y enviandolos más al este. Al mismo tiempo los Anazasi Virgin proseguian un intercambio extensivo local y regional. El desplome del sistema chaco en el siglo 12 A.D. parece haber sido un elemento importante en el desplome de los Anazasi Virgin y su abandono del sur de Nevada, un area que habían ocupado por acasi 1200 años.

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