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CLIFF DWELLER [2 records]

Record 1 1995-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistical Surveys
  • Urban Housing

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sondages et enquêtes (Statistique)
  • Habitation et logement (Urbanisme)
OBS

Source(s) : Glossaire du recensement de 1991 - version du 31 mars 1995.

Spanish

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Record 2 1985-04-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anthropology
  • Archaeology
DEF

an Indian in the southwestern United States who lived in prehistoric times in a cave or a house built onto a cliff. The cliff dwellers were ancestors of the Pueblo Indians.

DEF

one of the people of the Anasazi culture of the American southwest who erected their dwellings on rock ledges or in the recesses of canyon walls and cliffs.

OBS

often capital C & D.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anthropologie
  • Archéologie
CONT

Cliffdwellers : (expr. anglaise : «habitants des falaises»). Ancêtres des Indiens Pueblo qui vivaient dans des villages construits à l'abri de grandes falaises ou creusés dans celles-ci.

OBS

[falaisien] 19 oct. 1970 (terme proposé par Etiemble, Le Jargon des sciences, p. 97).

Spanish

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