The Virgin Anasazi and the Pan-Southwestern Trade System, A.D. 900–1150
1990; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 56; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00231940.1990.11758154
ISSN2051-6177
Autores Tópico(s)Colonialism, slavery, and trade
ResumoAnasazi 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.
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