Basket Maker

1. Any of several early periods of Ancestral Puebloan culture characterized by the use of wicker basketry, dry farming, and coiled pottery.

2. A member of the Ancestral Puebloan people who produced this culture.

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Basket Maker

(Anthropology & Ethnology) a member of an early Native American people of the southwestern US, preceding the Pueblo people, known for skill in basket-making

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Bas′ket Mak`er

1. any of a series of American Indian cultures that developed in the U.S. Southwest c100 b.c. to a.d. 700, noted esp. for their sophisticated basket weaving.

2. a member of the people who produced these cultures.

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Basket Maker - early Amerindians related to the Pueblo; known for skill in making baskets

primitive, primitive person - a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization

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