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3,000 Years Ago in North America

The Grave Creek Mound in Moundsville (Marshall County)

The Anasazi culture develops in what is now the southwestern United States. The earliest Anasazi are thought to have arrived in southern Arizona and New Mexico around 700 BC. As with the Olmecs in Central America and the Chavin in South America, the Anasazi are a mysterious people of which we know little, although they developed a sophisticated urban culture.

Anasazi itself is a Navajo Indian word for "ancient enemies". What they called themselves we do not know. The Hopi and Zuni nations see themselves as the direct descendants of the Anasazi and call them the Mohi or Hisatsinom, which more or less means "ancestors".

The Criel Mound in the American midwest was a burial site for a powerful leader. He was buried wearing a copper headdress and he also had a flint knife. Ten servants were also buried with him in the mound. The first "mound builder" people lived in the Ohio River valley around 800 BC.

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