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Ancestral Puebloan · c. 1,500 BCE - 500 CE

Basketmaker II

Maize agriculture arrives in the Southwest well before pottery does. Named for the basketry that survives in the region’s dry caves and rockshelters in quantities the East can only envy.

Date range
1,500 BCE – 500 CE
Key terms
Basketry · Early maize · Atlatl · Pre-ceramic
Terminology used in
Southwest