Adopting the Pueblo Fettle: The Breadth and Depth of the Basketmaker III Cultural Horizon

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Adopting the Pueblo Fettle: The Breadth and Depth of the Basketmaker III Cultural Horizon," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Basketmaker III period (A.D. 500-725) is a fundamental cultural horizon in Ancestral Pueblo history. Over the course of this period, technologies and social practices of disparate culture groups across the northern Southwest became aligned for the first time, creating a foundation for eight centuries of Ancestral Pueblo culture. This widespread integration was linked to favorable climate conditions and fueled by population growth, migration, and interaction, which resulted in the formation of unique but related Basketmaker III communities. This session considers the demographics, shared practices, and community dynamics of Basketmaker III populations across the northern Southwest with Crow Canyon Archaeological Center’s Basketmaker Communities Project, in southwest Colorado, as a particular case study.