The Basketmaker II Time Period
400 AD - 700 AD
The Anasazi from the Basketmaker
II or Early Basketmaker Phase, set up many settlements throughout their NW New Mexico and NE
Arizona range that were tied together with complex systems of roads.
The people lived in caves or crude shelters of poles of juniper and
piņon adobe mud. They grew corn and pumpkins to supplement their
hunting and gathering. The food that they gathered and grew was
stored in pits that were lined with stone slabs. The Early Basketmaker
peoples domesticated the turkey and already had the dog. The children
of the Pueblos shepherded the dogs as pets and the turkeys as food.
The turkey's feathers were also used to make blankets and clothing
which were worn or traded with such people as the Yavapai.
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