Basketmaker culture
| Ancestral Puebloan periods |
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Archaic–Early Basketmaker 7000–1500 BCE |
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Early Basketmaker II 1500 BCE–50 CE |
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Late Basketmaker II 50–500 |
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Basketmaker III 500–750 |
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Pueblo I 750–900 |
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Pueblo II 900–1150 |
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Pueblo III 1150–1350 |
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Pueblo IV 1350–1600 |
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Pueblo V 1600–present |
The Basketmaker culture of the pre-Ancestral Puebloans began about 1500 BCE and continued until about 750 CE with the beginning of the Pueblo I Era. This prehistoric culture of Oasisamerica was named "Basketmaker" for the large number of baskets found at archaeological sites of 3,000 to 2,000 years ago.