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Casas Grandes, the Glossary

Casas Grandes (Spanish for Great Houses; also known as Paquimé) is a prehistoric archaeological site in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua.^[1]

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Archaeological sites in Chihuahua (state)
Landmarks in Chihuahua (state)
Mogollon culture
National Monuments of Mexico
Tourist attractions in Chihuahua (state)

Amerind Foundation

The Amerind Foundation is a museum and research facility dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of Native American cultures and their histories.

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The Ancestral Puebloans, also known as the Anasazi, were an ancient Native American culture that spanned the present-day Four Corners region of the United States, comprising southeastern Utah, northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado. Casas Grandes and Ancestral Puebloans are Oasisamerica cultures.

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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Aztec Ruins National Monument

The Aztec Ruins National Monument in northwestern New Mexico, US, consists of preserved structures constructed by the Pueblo Indians.

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Aztecs

The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican civilization that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521.

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Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University (BYU) is a private research university in Provo, Utah, United States.

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Brigham Young University Museum of Peoples and Cultures

The Brigham Young University Museum of Peoples and Cultures, located in Provo, Utah, is the university's museum of archaeology and ethnology.

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British Museum

The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.

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Casas Grandes Municipality

Casas Grandes Municipality is located in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua.

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Chaco Culture National Historical Park

Chaco Culture National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park in the American Southwest hosting a concentration of pueblos. Casas Grandes and Chaco Culture National Historical Park are Oasisamerica cultures.

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Charles C. Di Peso

Charles Corradino Di Peso (October 20, 1920, in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. – November 20, 1982, in Tucson, Arizona) was an American archaeologist.

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Chihuahua (state)

Chihuahua, officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Chihuahua (Free and Sovereign State of Chihuahua), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 federal entities of Mexico.

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Chihuahua City

The city of Chihuahua or Chihuahua City (Ciudad de Chihuahua; Lipan: Ją’éłąyá) is the state capital of the Mexican state of Chihuahua.

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Closet

A closet (especially in North American English usage) is an enclosed space, with a door, used for storage, particularly that of clothes.

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Colonia Dublán

Colonia Dublán began as a Mormon colony, located in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico.

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Colorado

Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.

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Courtyard

A courtyard or court is a circumscribed area, often surrounded by a building or complex, that is open to the sky.

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Cuarenta Casas

Cuarenta Casas (literally "40 houses") is an archaeological site in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Casas Grandes and Cuarenta Casas are archaeological sites in Chihuahua (state), landmarks in Chihuahua (state), Mogollon culture, Oasisamerica cultures and Tourist attractions in Chihuahua (state).

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Cueva de la Olla (archaeological site)

Cueva de la Olla is an archaeological site located in the Valle de las Cuevas in the northwest of Chihuahua, Mexico. Casas Grandes and Cueva de la Olla (archaeological site) are archaeological sites in Chihuahua (state), landmarks in Chihuahua (state), Mogollon culture and Tourist attractions in Chihuahua (state).

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Earthenware

Earthenware is glazed or unglazed nonvitreous pottery that has normally been fired below.

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Francisco de Ibarra

Francisco de Ibarra (1539 –June 3, 1575) was a Spanish-Basque explorer, founder of the city of Durango, and governor of the Spanish province of Nueva Vizcaya, in present-day Durango and Chihuahua.

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Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument

Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument is a U.S. National Monument created to protect Mogollon cliff dwellings in the Gila Wilderness on the headwaters of the Gila River in southwest New Mexico. Casas Grandes and Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument are Mogollon culture.

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Gila, New Mexico

Gila is a census-designated place in Grant County, New Mexico, United States.

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Many shapes have metaphorical names, i.e., their names are metaphors: these shapes are named after a most common object that has it.

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Gravel

Gravel is a loose aggregation of rock fragments.

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Hohokam Pima National Monument

The Hohokam Pima National Monument is an ancient Hohokam village within the Gila River Indian Community, near present-day Sacaton, Arizona.

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Hopi

The Hopi are Native Americans who primarily live in northeastern Arizona.

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Hubert Howe Bancroft

Hubert Howe Bancroft (May 5, 1832 – March 2, 1918) was an American historian and ethnologist who wrote, published, and collected works concerning the western United States, Texas, California, Alaska, Mexico, Central America, and British Columbia.

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Indigenous peoples of Mexico

Indigenous peoples of Mexico (gente indígena de México, pueblos indígenas de México), Native Mexicans (nativos mexicanos) or Mexican Native Americans (lit), are those who are part of communities that trace their roots back to populations and communities that existed in what is now Mexico before the arrival of Europeans.

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Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia

The Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH, National Institute of Anthropology and History) is a Mexican federal government bureau established in 1939 to guarantee the research, preservation, protection, and promotion of the prehistoric, archaeological, anthropological, historical, and paleontological heritage of Mexico.

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Janos, Chihuahua

Janos is a town located in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua.

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Latin American Antiquity

Latin American Antiquity is a professional journal published by the Society for American Archaeology, the largest organization of professional archaeologists of the Americas in the world.

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Lists of World Heritage Sites

This is a list of the lists of World Heritage Sites.

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Mata Ortiz pottery

Mata Ortiz pottery is a recreation of the Mogollon pottery found in and around the archeological site of Casas Grandes (Paquimé) in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.

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Mesoamerican ballcourt

A Mesoamerican ballcourt (tlachtli) is a large masonry structure of a type used in Mesoamerica for more than 2,700 years to play the Mesoamerican ballgame, particularly the hip-ball version of the ballgame.

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A metate (or mealing stone) is a type or variety of quern, a ground stone tool used for processing grain and seeds.

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Meteorite

A meteorite is a rock that originated in outer space and has fallen to the surface of a planet or moon.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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Mogollon culture

Mogollon culture is an archaeological culture of Native American peoples from Southern New Mexico and Arizona, Northern Sonora and Chihuahua, and Western Texas. Casas Grandes and Mogollon culture are Oasisamerica cultures.

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Mollusca

Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals, after Arthropoda; members are known as molluscs or mollusks.

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Mud

Mud is loam, silt or clay mixed with water.

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Municipalities of Mexico

Municipalities (municipios in Spanish) are the second-level administrative divisions of Mexico, where the first-level administrative division is the state (estado).

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Nahuatl

Nahuatl, Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family.

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National Museum of Natural History

The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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Nuevo Casas Grandes

Nuevo Casas Grandes is a city and the seat of the Nuevo Casas Grandes Municipality in northern Mexico.

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Oasisamerica

Oasisamerica is a cultural region of Indigenous peoples in North America. Casas Grandes and Oasisamerica are archaeological sites in Chihuahua (state) and Oasisamerica cultures.

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Opata people

The Opata (/ˈopata/) are an Indigenous people in Mexico.

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PDF

Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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Plaster

Plaster is a building material used for the protective or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements.

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Pochteca

Pochteca (singular pochtecatl) were professional, long-distance traveling merchants in the Aztec Empire.

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Pottery

Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form.

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Pre-Columbian era

In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era, also known as the pre-contact era, spans from the original peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus's voyage of 1492.

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Provo, Utah

Provo is a city in and the county seat of Utah County, Utah, United States.

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Puebloans

The Puebloans, or Pueblo peoples, are Native Americans in the Southwestern United States who share common agricultural, material, and religious practices. Casas Grandes and Puebloans are Oasisamerica cultures.

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Pueblos Mágicos

The Programa Pueblos Mágicos ("Magical Towns Programme") is an initiative led by Mexico's Secretariat of Tourism, with support from other federal agencies, to promote a series of towns around the country that offer visitors "cultural richness, historical relevance, cuisine, art crafts, and great hospitality". Casas Grandes and Pueblos Mágicos are National Monuments of Mexico.

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Reservoir

A reservoir is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.

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Rio Grande

The Rio Grande in the United States or the Río Bravo (del Norte) in Mexico, also known as P’osoge in Tewa and Tó Ba’áadi in Navajo, is one of the principal rivers (along with the Colorado River) in the southwestern United States and in northern Mexico.

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Ruins

Ruins are the remains of a civilization's architecture.

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Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument

The Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument is a complex of three Spanish missions located in the U.S. state of New Mexico, near Mountainair.

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Scarlet macaw

The scarlet macaw (Ara macao) is a large yellow, red and blue Neotropical parrot native to humid evergreen forests of the Americas.

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Society for American Archaeology

The Society for American Archaeology (SAA) is a professional association for the archaeology of the Americas.

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Soil fertility

Soil fertility refers to the ability of soil to sustain agricultural plant growth, i.e. to provide plant habitat and result in sustained and consistent yields of high quality.

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Sonora

Sonora, officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora (Free and Sovereign State of Sonora), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico.

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Southwestern archaeology

Southwestern archaeology is a branch of archaeology concerned with the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico. Casas Grandes and Southwestern archaeology are Mogollon culture and Oasisamerica cultures.

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Spanish colonization of the Americas

The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) after the initial 1492 voyage of Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus under license from Queen Isabella I of Castile.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Suma people

The Suma were an Indigenous people of Aridoamerica.

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University of Arizona Press

The University of Arizona Press, a publishing house founded in 1959 as a department of the University of Arizona, is a nonprofit publisher of scholarly and regional books.

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University of North Texas Press

The University of North Texas Press (or UNT Press), founded in 1987, is a university press that is part of the University of North Texas.

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Valley

A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which typically contains a river or stream running from one end to the other.

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World Heritage Committee

The World Heritage Committee is a committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization that selects the sites to be listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the World Heritage List and the List of World Heritage in Danger, defines the use of the World Heritage Fund and allocates financial assistance upon requests from States Parties.

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World Heritage Site

World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casas_Grandes

Also known as Archaeological Zone of Paquimé, Casas Grandes, Archeological Zone of Paquimé, Casas Grandes, Casas Grandes, Mexico, Paquimé, Paquime site.

, Plaster, Pochteca, Pottery, Pre-Columbian era, Provo, Utah, Puebloans, Pueblos Mágicos, Reservoir, Rio Grande, Ruins, Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, Scarlet macaw, Society for American Archaeology, Soil fertility, Sonora, Southwestern archaeology, Spanish colonization of the Americas, Stanford University, Suma people, University of Arizona Press, University of North Texas Press, Valley, World Heritage Committee, World Heritage Site.

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See also

Archaeological sites in Chihuahua (state)

Landmarks in Chihuahua (state)

Mogollon culture

National Monuments of Mexico

Tourist attractions in Chihuahua (state)

References