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Description: Ancestral Pueblo People at Aztec Ruins Early settlers mistakingly thought that people from the Aztec Empire in Mexico created these striking buildings. They named the site Aztec, a misnomer that persisted even after it became clear that the builders were the ancestors of many Southwestern tribes. The people who built at Aztec and other places throughout the Southwest were called Anasazi for many years. Archeologists had adopted a word from the Navajo language, that they understood to mean old pe