From about AD 450-700 more than 200 Basketmaker sites sat on Chaco Canyon mesas, ridges, and the canyon floor.
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The basketmakers were able to have, with good years of work, sufficient profits but not as much as they did before.
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However, in the bad times of 1929-1933, unemployment and hunger were regular guests at the homes of the basketmakers.
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The original classification postulated a "'Basketmaker I Period "'which was subsequently discredited due to lack of physical evidence.
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So it happens that when the " last basketmaker " dies, another member will step up to become " the last basketmaker ".
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So it happens that when the " last basketmaker " dies, another member will step up to become " the last basketmaker ".
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A theory is that other local people may have waged war having felt displaced by the number of new Basketmaker III settlements in the area.
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Other differences between the Archaic and Basketmaker cultures were the forms of basketry, symbols used in petroglyphs, burial practices and increase in traded items.
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Other differences between the Archaic and Basketmaker cultures were the forms of basketry, symbols used in petroglyphs, burial practices and volume of traded items.
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The annual Native American Festival and Maine Indian Basketmakers Sale will be held Saturday, July 10, at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor.
