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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]
In the Early Basketmaker II Era people lived a semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle with the introduction of cultivation of corn, which led to a more settled, agrarian life. Some of the early people lived in cave shelters in the San Juan River drainage.
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.
Basketmaker, Pueblo I, Pueblo II Cortez: Private owner Ruins from 500 - 1000, [42] also known as the Mitchell Springs Ruin Group, is a Northern San Juan pueblo. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in Montezuma County in 2001. [17] Ruins of 9 medium-sized pueblos from the Basketmaker II period to late Pueblo III.
Pictograph, southeastern Utah, ca. 1200 BCE Early Basketmaker II Era The Great Gallery , Pictographs , Canyonlands National Park , Horseshoe Canyon , Utah , 15 feet by 200 feet, ca. 1500 BCE Ancestral Pueblo ceramic canteen, excavated from Chaco Canyon , New Mexico , ce. 700 CE–1100 CE