A member of a culture of the south-western US, forming the early stages of the Anasazi culture, from the 1st century BC until c.AD 700. The name comes from the basketry and other woven fragments found in early cave sites.
The Basket Maker drew the mother lioness out in me.
To archaeologists they are known as the San Francisco Culture or the Basket Makers, and are commonly but mistakenly referred to as the Anasazi (a Navajo word originally meaning ‘the enemy’).
Some Basket Makers may have moved and may have been the ancestors of other Native American tribes.
Archaeologists divide the time of their culture into the Basket Maker and Modified Basket Maker periods; in the latter period they turned increasingly to agriculture.
Animals were also caught by the Basket Makers with a variety of ingenious nets and snares.
Definition of Basket Maker in US English:
Basket Maker
noun
A member of a culture of the southwestern US, forming the early stages of the Anasazi culture, from the 1st century BC until c.AD 700. The name comes from the basketry and other woven fragments found in early cave sites.
Archaeologists divide the time of their culture into the Basket Maker and Modified Basket Maker periods; in the latter period they turned increasingly to agriculture.
To archaeologists they are known as the San Francisco Culture or the Basket Makers, and are commonly but mistakenly referred to as the Anasazi (a Navajo word originally meaning ‘the enemy’).
Some Basket Makers may have moved and may have been the ancestors of other Native American tribes.
Animals were also caught by the Basket Makers with a variety of ingenious nets and snares.
The Basket Maker drew the mother lioness out in me.