Early Basketmaker II Era

Ancestral Puebloan periods
Archaic–Early Basketmaker Era 7000–1500 BCE
Early Basketmaker II Era 1500 BCE–50 CE
Late Basketmaker II Era 50–500
Basketmaker III Era 500–750
Pueblo I Period 750–900
Pueblo II Period 900–1150
Pueblo III Period 1150–1350
Pueblo IV Period 1350–1600
Pueblo V Period 1600–present

The Early Basketmaker II Era (1500 BCE – 50 CE) was the first Post-Archaic cultural period of Ancient Pueblo People. The era began with the cultivation of maize in the northern American southwest, although there was not a dependence upon agriculture until about 500 BCE.^[1] It is preceded by the Archaic-Early Basketmaker Era, and is followed by the Late Basketmaker II Era.