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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 ]
[2] It was not until the Late Basketmaker II Era (about AD 50–500) that people lived in permanent dwellings, crude pit-houses made of brush, logs and earth. During the later portion of this period fired pottery was introduced to the Basketmakers, which due to regional and evolutionary differences greatly aided in dating and tracking pottery ...
1 CE – 800 CE Dorset culture: 500 BCE – 1500 CE Thule people: 200 BCE – 1600 CE on Great Plains Plains Woodland: c. 500 BCE – 1000 CE Plains Village: c. 1000 – 1780 CE in Southwest and by Pecos Classification: Early Basketmaker II Era: 1500 BCE – 50 CE Late Basketmaker II Era: 50 CE – 500 CE Basketmaker III Era: 500 CE – 750 CE ...
500: Late Basketmaker II Era phase of Ancestral Pueblo culture diminishes in the American Southwest. 700: Basketmaker III Era of the American Southwest evolve into the early Pueblo culture. 755±65 – 890±65: likely dates of the Blythe Geoglyphs being sculpted by ancestral Quechan and Mojave peoples in the Colorado Desert, California [3]
Colorado Plateau Pictograph, southeastern Utah, c. 1200 BCE Basketmaker culture. The Archaic–Early Basketmaker Era (7000–1500 BCE) was an Archaic cultural period of ancestors to the Ancient Pueblo People. They were distinguished from other Archaic people of the Southwest by their basketry which was used to gather and store food. They became ...
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
The Archaic time frame is defined culturally as a transition from a hunting/gathering lifestyle to one involving agriculture and permanent, if only seasonally occupied, settlements. In the Southwest, the Archaic is generally dated from 8000 years ago to approximately 1800 to 2000 years ago. [2]
Basketmaker culture – American southwestern culture of the Ancient Pueblo People, dated about 1500 BC to AD 500, named for the large number of baskets found at archaeological sites. This group was preceded by the Archaic–Early Basketmaker Era, Durango Rock Shelters Archeology Site and followed by the Pueblo I Era.