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Paula in short doorway at Aztec Ruins, Aztec, NM 6/17/01
Taken with  Olympus C-700 digital camera

The Anazazi were short, around 5 feet or less.  The doors were even shorter, so that invading enemies would be crouching and coming in head first, easy to hit on the head.

Throughout the Southwest, and the Four Corners, there are 125,000 Anazazi ruins.  Typical at each of the residential sites were circular Kivas, places of religious events.  Also, because the Kivas were round, they could be used as astronomical observatories.  Siting at a certain station a man (the Kivas were men-only) could see the Pliades (Seven Sisters) just over the edge.  This would mean it was corn planting time.

This is the Grand Kiva, at Aztec, NM.  The exterior is the building in the upper left in the picture to the left.  Notice the round stones next to Cliff.  They were the bases of the pillars.  They were carried or rolled by men from miles away.  Somehow no one thought of using axes and making a wheel.

The pits may have been fire pits or foot drums.

It is believed by anthropologists that the center of Anazazi culture was Chaco Canyon, NM.  There were remnants of roads from Chaco to many of the other Anazazi sites.

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