The term Anasazi is a Navajo word meaning “ancestral enemies”. The term has always been offensive to the Hopi and other Pueblo Indians who are the descendants of the Anasazi. The Hopi use the word Hisatsinom. Before 1936 the term used for these people was Cliff Dwellers. The history of these people on the Colorado Plateau spans the years from 6500 B.C.E. when they were scattered bands of hunter-gatherers through the period 1350-1600 C.E. when they reached the peak of their culture and built large plaza-oriented cliff dwellings. By 1300 C.E. they had abandoned the Four Corners area of the United States including Monument Valley. But they left behind traces of their presence if you know where to look. Just opposite of the “Eye of the Sun” (http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2583476&user_id=4105&np&np) is a rock wall displaying 700 year old petroglyphs. From left to right you can see a pronghorn sheep. Next to it is the figure of a chief being struck by lightning. Above him are the lightning bolts and a wavy double line representing the thunderclouds. The character on the far right with the nine dots over his head (headdress) is a shaman.