Pecos Classification

Basket Maker is a culture of Formativum (Neolithic ) in the southwestern United States, especially in Utah and Arizona. It was defined by Richard Wetherill. The name refers to the typical basket of goods in Wulsttechnik that have well preserved in the dry climate of the Southwest. Today, they are considered the first two phases of the Anasazi or Ancestral Puebloan culture.

During this time no more ceramic was used. Alfred Kidder (1915 ) assumed that the carriers of the Basketmaker II culture (BM II) immigrated. M. Berry leads the Western BM II on the Pre-Pottery San Pedro Cochise culture, seen in the other the roots of the Mogollon culture. A distinction is made between classical western and eastern Durango facies of the BM II culture. North of the Basket Maker culture lived hunters and gatherers.

Important sites are located on the Black Mesa and Cedar Mesa. Some of the sites are located in areas that are defending well, and there are often burned building. This includes Stephen LeBlanc on frequent armed conflicts. In the Green Mask Cave in Utah and Red Canyon skeletons were found with head injuries. In the Woodchuck Cave 20 headless burials were found. In the Battle Cave were among the 13 people buried some who had died from violent injuries. Children and women are under-represented, perhaps they were forcibly abducted.

The Basket Maker built on corn, they camped in stone-clad storage pits. They also knew pumpkins and zucchini. For hunting they used spear throwers. Since 100 AD, they built pit houses in small villages. They are round, inside are bell-shaped storage pits. In a later phase, the inputs are clad with sandstone slabs. Sandals of rushes are known from Durango - facies in the west Yucca fibers were used.