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Once the Spanish came into contact with different tribes in the Southwest, they were so intrigued by the structure of the neighborhoods that they offered the natives the name Pueblo, a term they used to evaluate certain sizes for their own settlements. Thus, some Americans have heard about the Pueblo and Navajo, many continue to be not really acquainted with distinctions within the tribes. The Spaniards' interest was understandable because the Pueblo fascinated those who came across their settlements, especially those positioned in desert parts and the attributes of cliffs that included the utilization of adobe dirt, rock, carving homes out of cliffs. One particular settlement, Oraibi, was created around AD 1100 and remains one of the oldest consistently inhabited settlements in THE UNITED STATES, but the most well-known of the cliff dwellings are available at Mesa Verde, which was turned into a national area in the first 20th century, about 1,500 years after the ancient Pueblo founded the settlement. Today's Puebloan tribes are descended from tribes known as the Ancestral Puebloan People" one of which was the Anasazi, but anthropologists think that the Anasazi were a standard ancestor of every Pueblo group, so the ancient Pueblo are often described simply as the Anasazi. The name Anasazi came from their enemies; this can be a Navajo word which means "enemy ancestor". While that name understandably is constantly on the offend the descendants of the Anasazi, it also underscores that there surely is still a lot of uncertainty regarding the history of the Anasazi. In fact, it continues to be unclear the particular Anasazi called themselves, and even though they resided close to the Four Corners area of Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico for more than 700 years, they mysteriously discontinued their settlements shortly after they truly started to flourish around AD 1050-1150.
