Early Pueblo Culture

Name: Early Pueblo Culture
Start: 600
End: 700

Type Event Region American Southwest Time 600–700

Between 600 and 700 CE, the ancient Pueblo people (Ancestral Puebloans) of the Four Corners region transitioned from Basketmaker III to Pueblo I cult…

Timeline

600–650San Juan Basin · New MexicoArchaeological sites show residents shifting from seasonal camps to more permanent villages, with semi-subterranean pithouses becoming the main dwelling form, increased cultivation of corn, beans, and squash, and gray ware and black-on-white geometric pottery gradually replacing baskets as primary containers.
650–700Four Corners region · SouthwestAbove-ground stone storage rooms and ceremonial structures appear, villages form in clusters, and the pattern of pithouses coexisting with surface buildings is established, providing architectural techniques and social organization foundations for the later development of Pueblo II multi-room stone houses and cliff dwellings.

Sources

A History of the Ancient Southwest — Stephen H. Lekson (2009)
The Archaeology of the Southwest — Linda S. Cordell (1997)