ARCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Haco, Pueblo Iii Period, Ancestral Puebloans
3 Nov 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
3 major cultures: ancestral puebloan (aka anasazi, mogollon, hohokam. Unclear, although they seem to have developed out of local archaic culture. Earliest farmers did not make pottery, but relied on basketry. Once crops were harvested, food storage became important. Underground storage pits protected preserved crops from insects, rodents, and other animals. Internal divisions (like rooms) were present within these later houses. Pits were typically lined and covered with slabs of stone, and sealed with adobe. Formal entrances were also found in these later houses. Later basketmaker culture continued to use baskets, but less frequently. Ceramics began to replace baskets as the preferred type of container. This trend continued for the remainder of prehistory, where pottery was predominant. Around ad 750, the ancestral puebloan culture changed. Basketmaker groups with pithouses were replaced with above-ground structures called pueblos. These were small initially, but eventually grew into very large room blocks, with dozens (sometimes hundreds) of rooms.
