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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 ...
[2] 1. The Paleo-Indians stage and/or Lithic stage 2. The Archaic stage 3. Formative stage or Post-archaic stage – at this point, the North American classifications system differs from the rest of the Americas. For more details on the five major stages, still used in Mesoamerican archaeology, see Mesoamerican chronology and Archaeology of the ...
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 ...
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.
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.
They left little evidence of their presence in Chaco Canyon. By AD 490, their descendants, of the Late Basketmaker II Era, farmed lands around Shabik'eshchee Village and other pit-house settlements at Chaco. [citation needed] A small population of Basketmakers remained in the Chaco Canyon area.
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