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Basket Makers

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Basket Makers name given to the members of an early Native North American culture in the Southwest, predecessors of the Pueblo . Because of the cultural continuity from the Basket Makers to the Pueblos, they are jointly referred to by archaeologists as the Anasazi culture. They are so called because of their extensive practice of basketmaking; by covering the baskets with clay and baking them hard they created waterproof containers. One system of dating places their arrival in the area as early as 1500 BC They seem to have been at first nomadic hunters, using wooden clubs, hunting sticks,... Read more
basket-makers
basket-makers A group of Native Americans in Colorado and neighbouring areas who developed out of the desert cultures in the last centuries BC. They adopted farming from MEXICO . The baskets they used instead of pottery have been preserved in the dry climatic conditions of their territory. Read more
Automatic Drip Coffee Maker
...condenses in the top of the pot, and then drips through a strainer basket filled with coffee. The Melitta filter — a plastic...parts are made out of plastic, including the body and the basket which holds the filter. The base plate, warmer plate, and...Injection molding 1 The plastic parts for automatic ... Read more

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