Basket Makers were predecessors of the Pueblo, they are jointly referred to by archaeologists as the Anasazi culture. One system of dating places their arrival in the area as early as 1500 BCE. They lived chiefly in houses with adobe floors and learned to grow corn and squash, probably from…

The Southwest area generally extends over Arizona, New Mexico, as well as parts of Colorado and Utah. The first humans to inhabit the Americas are presumed to have moved from N.E. Asia across a land bridge, known as Beringia, exposed in the Bering Sea region several times during the Ice…