Existing comment:
1500-850 years ago (500 AD-1150 AD)
Facts: Anasazi-Pueblo
Lifeway: Hunting, collecting, supplemented by gardening
Dwellings: Villages of shallow pithouses and surface pueblos.
Diet: Domestic corn, beans, squash; wild plant foods, birds, bighorn sheep, deer, antelope, rodents.
Challenge: Develop dependable food supply; trade network.
Response: Added cultivated plants to diet; developed semi-sedentary pattern of residence; trade network linked Anasazi to California coast and to Southwest. |