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The North American Southwest
Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and southeast Utah. "Four Corners"
Ancestral Pueblo peoples built settled communities called
Cliff Dwellings
Who are the descendants of the Ancestral Pueblo
Hopi, Zuni, and Rio Grande Pueblos
Prehistoric Cultures in Ancestral Pueblo High Desert "Four Corners"
Hohokam (southern Arizona)
Mogollon
Ancestral Puebloan
Paleoamerican people depended on what for method of collecting sustenance
Hunting
Gathering
Foraging
(present in the SW from 11'000 to 8000 BC)
Around 2100 BC the Hohokam people began
incorporating domesticated maize (from Mexico) into their diets.
After 8000 BC, paleoamerican people transitioned to
the Archaic period
Squash was domesticated
1200 BC
Late archaic people in the Hohokam area constructed
irrigation canals by 1250 BC (possibly as early as 17050 BC)
The basketmaker period had ____ period(s)
Two periods. Basketmaker I, Basketmaker II
Basketmaker I took place between
500 BC to 500 AD