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Ancestral pueblo

Two Thousand years ago the native 

Americans inhabiting Utah started to 

farm, and grow food. Because of this 

they started to live in one place and 

build permanent shelters.The Ancestral 

pueblo Indians also hunted for food, they used 

bows and arrows.

 They also began to live in small villages with their 

families. They lived in pit-houses. eventually they 

started to live in houses above the ground.

500 B.C -750 A.D - Basket 

maker period 

During the Basket maker period the people started 

to depend on their crops for most of their food. So 

they settled on small farmsteads located close to 

good farmland, they lived in pit-houses. They left 

behind baskets and crops that archaeologists have 

found.

The farmers during this time, grew corn.

Pueblo 1 Period: A.D. 750- 

900 

During the period of pueblo 1 the people started to 

populate the Mesa Verde region. The people farmed 

most of their food. They lived in houses pit-houses 

and houses made of dirt and wood. They left behind 

corn, ladders, and animal bones. 

Many of these families lived close together in 

villages.

Pueblo II Period: A.D. 900 

to 1150

They tried to farm corn to eat.However the people 

started to move south, away from the Mesa Verde 

region, because of a drought. They lived in houses 

that had more than one story.

Archaeologists have found large sites where they 

think the people went to trade and socialize, they 

have also found shell jewelry, copper bells, 

turquoise, and macaw feathers at these sites.

These pueblo Indians created many things, and 

were good farmers.

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