Regional1150 – 1300 · 150 years
Ancestral Puebloan Conflicts
Pre-Columbian Southwestern North American pueblos engaged in warfare before the Ancestral Puebloan period's decline.
Estimated casualties
10Ksingle estimate · no range published
What happened
Ancestral Puebloans (Anasazi) of the Southwest developed fortified pueblo settlements and evidence of inter-settlement conflicts. Archaeological evidence indicates violence, defensive architecture, and migration patterns suggesting conflict-driven displacement. The 12th-13th century droughts and subsequent migration disrupted pueblo networks. Violence indicators include skeletal trauma and site destruction.
Why it mattered
Inter-pueblo conflicts and environmental stress contributed to the migration and reorganization of Southwestern peoples. These conflicts presaged historic Pueblo political fragmentation.
Belligerents1
- Ancestral Puebloans
Sources
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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Cite as: Ancestral Puebloan Conflicts (1150 – 1300). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/anasazi-puebloan-conflicts · Sources & methodology