SW Arch Basics

Question 1

Basketmaker II

Answer 1

500 BC to 500 AD

Question 2

Basketmaker III

Answer 2

500 AD to 750AD

Question 3

Pueblo I

Answer 3

750 to 900 AD

Question 4

Pueblo II

Answer 4

900 to 1150 AD

Question 5

Pueblo III

Answer 5

1150 to 1290 AD

Question 6

Pueblo IV

Answer 6

1290 to 1500 AD

Question 7

Archaic

Answer 7

6000 to 2000 BC

Question 8

Paleoindian

Answer 8

> 12000 to 6000 BC

Question 9

Early Agriculture

Answer 9

2000 to 500 BC

Question 10

Chapin Gray

Answer 10

600 to 980 AD

BM III to Early PI

Question 11

Moccasin Gray

Answer 11

neck banding wide, flat, non-overlapping
800 to 980 AD
Mid PI to early PII
body indistinguishable from Chapin or Mancos Gray

Question 12

Mancos Gray

Answer 12

880 to 1060
mid PI to PII
neckbanding narrow and overlapping
body sherds indistinguishable from Chapin or Moccasin Gray

Question 13

White Mesa B/W

Answer 13

825 to 925 AD
late PI to early PII
distinctive narrow lines, widely spaced

Question 14

Abajo R/O

Answer 14

725 to 880 AD

early to mid PI

Question 15

Bluff B/R

Answer 15

800 to 1020 AD

mid PI to mid PII

Question 16

Deadman’s B/R

Answer 16

880 to 1050-1100

late PI to mid PII

Question 17

Basin metate

Answer 17

BM II to BM III

used with smaller ~3” manos or larger one-handed manos

Question 18

Trough metate

Answer 18

PI to PII

one-handed or two-handed mano

Question 19

Slab metate

Answer 19

Late PII to PIII
larger surface, more efficient
one-handed or two-handed mano