Anasazi Indians Culture: Basketmaker

Anasazi Indians culture, that take place of the high plateau country of northern Arizona, the southern edge of Utah, southwestern Colorado, and most of northern New Mexico.

Basketmaker II
The first Anasazi Indian culture revealed in sites of Basketmaker II Period ( ca. 100 B.C – A.D 400). The typical projectile point of Basketmaker II were medium sized and corner notched. The metates were horse shoe shape. Tubular stone pipes have been found along with a profusion of bone and ornaments such as  notched animal scapulae and ribs.

Basketmaker III
The pottery of Basketmaker III was made by coiling and was usually fired toa gray or gray white color. A plain type, known as Lino Gray, is diagnostic of the Basketmaker III period, as are the associated Lino Black on Gray and La Plata Black on White types. Decoration was usually confined to the interiors of open bowls, and designs took the form of rectilinear elements of triangles, steps, panels, and zigzags.
An additional decorative element on Basketmaker III pottery was an impermanent, fugitive red pigment applied after firing. Other Basketmaker III innovations included the fully open ended  trough metate as a household feature toward the end of the Basketmaker period, the bow and arrow, the polished grooved axes and the cotton cloth.

Peublo I
The decorative painting Pueblo I is white ground color of the black on white vessels became true slip rather than pseudoslip of Basketmaker III. The Pueblo I pottery decorative painting applied in geometric and rectilinear design elements: zigzags, parallel, parallel-stepped and wavy lines, solid and dotted triangles, volutes, interlocking frets, checkers, and concentric elements. A horizon marker for the Pueblo I period is “neck-banding” not obliterating the coil strips jar necks of unpainted culinary ware.

Pueblo II
A pottery marker for Pueblo II is spiral-coiling as opposed to the ring coil manufacture of vessels and semi obliteration and annealing previously. This corrugated ware, as it is called,  was typical of much of the culinary pottery of both Pueblo II and Pueblo III.

Pueblo III
By Pueblo III pottery complex attained its climax. Excellent black-on-white styles were produced in the chaco, mesa verde. At Kayenta  a black-red- and white on orange polychrome was fashioned. Polychrome were also made in the Hopi Indian country. The Pueblo III pottery main design motifs were the complicated arrangements of triangles, frets, bands, and spirals executed in solid colors or in halchure alternating with the plain. A typical range of Pueblo III vessel forms for the painted wares would include handled pitchers and flat bottomed mugs, flat globular seed bowls, ladles, open bowls, and some effigy forms.