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The Pecos Classification is a division of all of known Ancient Pueblo Peoples culture into chronological phases, based on changes in architecture, art, pottery, and cultural remains. The original classification dates back to 1927, to a archæological conference held in Pecos, New Mexico. Although the original has been significantly debated and sometimes modified over the years, the split into Basketmaker and Pueblo eras still serves as a basis for discussing the culture of the Ancient Puebloans of the Four Corners area.1 Archaic Era
8th millennium BC to 12th century BC
The pre-Anasazi culture that moved into the modern-day Southwest United StatesRegions of the United States The Southwest region of the United States is drier than the adjoining Midwest in weather; the population is less dense and, with strong Spanish-American and Native American components, more ethnically varied than neighboring a after the big game hunters departed are called Archaic. Little evidence for extensive habitation before 8000 BC exists. From evidence near Navajo Mountain , they were nomadic peopleCommunities of nomadic people move from place to place, rather than settling down in one location. Many cultures have been traditionally nomadic, but nomadic behaviour is increasingly rare in industrialised countries. Typically there are two kinds of noma, hunter-gathererIn anthropology, a the hunter-gatherer way of life is that led by certain societies based on the exploitation of wild plants and animals. Consequently, hunter-gatherers are relatively mobile, and groups of hunter-gatherers have fluid boundaries and composs traveling in small bands. They gathered wild foods when in seasonThis article is about divisions of a year. For other uses of the term, see season (disambiguation). Fig. 1 This is a diagram of the seasons. Note that, regardless of the time of day (i. the Earth's rotation on its axis), the North Pole will be dark, and t, and hunted with stone-tipped spears, atlatlThe atlatl is a weapon that uses leverage to achieve greater speed in spear-throwing. It consists of a shaft with a hook, in which the butt of the spear rests. It is held near the far end from the cup, and the spear is thrown by action of upper arm and wrs, and dartDart may mean: A dart is a type of missile thrown or shot. Darts is a popular game, often played in pubs. The River Dart is a river in Devon, UK The Dodge Dart was a successful automobile produced by the Chrysler Corporation. A model of bus manufactured bs. Game included rabbitRabbit usually refers to the European Rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus a native of southern Europe. It has been widely introduced elsewhere often with devastating effects on local biodiversity. Rabbits in the wild The European Rabbit is a small grey-brown mams, deer, antelope, and bighorn sheep.
(The original classification postulated a Basketmaker I Era which was subsequently discredited due to lack of physical evidence, and rolled into the Archaic Era)
2 Early Basketmaker II Era
1200 BC to AD 50
Early Anasazi camped in the open or lived in caves seasonally. During this period, they began to cultivate gardens of maize ( flint corn in particular) and squash, but no beans. They used manos and metates to grind corn, made baskets, but had no pottery.
