People of the Late Basket Maker II…

People of the Late Basket Maker II culture experiment with a crude form of brown pottery in the middle of the period, about CE 200.

Excavated items from this period include good quality, tightly woven baskets; woven yucca bags, sandals and blankets; robes and blankets made of feather and fur; stone projectile points, scrapers and knives; atlatl and throwing spears (the main tools for hunting); bone stitching awls, whistles, and gaming pieces; cord made from yucca and cedar bark; oval-shaped cradles; and stone pipes.

The cultural groups of this period include: the Anasazi of southern Utah, southern Colorado, northern Arizona and northern and central New Mexico; the Hohokam of southern Arizona; and the Mogollon of southeastern Arizona, southern New Mexico and northern Mexico.