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The Early Basketmaker II Era (1500 BCE – 50 CE) was the first Post-Archaic cultural period of Ancient Pueblo People.The era began with the cultivation of maize in the northern American southwest, although there was not a dependence upon agriculture until about 500 BCE. [1]
The Basketmaker culture of the pre-Ancestral Puebloans began about 1500 BC and continued until about AD 750 with the beginning of the Pueblo I Era. The prehistoric American southwestern culture was named "Basketmaker" for the large number of baskets found at archaeological sites of 3,000 to 2,000 years ago.
By the end of the period, some people cultivated food and became less mobile, but agriculture would not be consistently adopted until the 1st century CE in the Early Basketmaker II Era. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Excavation of their campsites and rock shelters revealed that the Archaic-Early Basketmaker people made baskets, tools, gathered wild plants, and ...
The current agreement, based on terminology defined by the Pecos Classification, suggests their emergence around the 12th century BCE, during the archaeologically designated Early Basketmaker II Era. Beginning with the earliest explorations and excavations, researchers identified Ancestral Puebloans as the forerunners of contemporary Pueblo ...
Early Basketmaker II Era: 1500 BCE – 50 CE Late Basketmaker II Era: 50 CE – 500 CE Basketmaker III Era: 500 CE – 750 CE Pueblo I Era: 750 CE – 900 CE Pueblo II Era: 900 CE – 1150 CE Pueblo III Era: 1150 CE – 1350 CE Pueblo IV Era: 1350 CE – 1600 CE Pueblo V Era: 1600 CE – present in Southwest and by peoples Ancestral Puebloans ...
The Pecos Classification is a chronological division of all known Ancestral Puebloans into periods based on changes in architecture, art, pottery, and cultural remains.The original classification dates back to consensus reached at a 1927 archæological conference held in Pecos, New Mexico, which was organized by the United States archaeologist Alfred V. Kidder.
Archaic–Early Basketmaker Era 7000–1500 BCE: Early Basketmaker II Era 1500 BCE–50 CE: Late Basketmaker II Era 50–500: Basketmaker III Era 500–750: Pueblo I Period 750–900: Pueblo II Period 900–1150: Pueblo III Period 1150–1350: Pueblo IV Period 1350–1600: Pueblo V Period 1600–present
Southwestern archaeology is a branch of archaeology concerned with the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico. This region was first occupied by hunter-gatherers, and thousands of years later by advanced civilizations, such as the Ancestral Puebloans, the Hohokam, and the Mogollon.