| 单词 | basket maker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBasket Maker Basket Maker n. Archaeology a member of an ancient culture in south-western U.S. preceding the Pueblo culture and characterized by basket-work; also applied attributively to this culture or period. ΚΠ 1897 Harper's Mag. June 61/1 Over the head a small flat basket, and a great finely woven basket over all—such was their burial fashion... The Wetherills [i.e. R. Wetherill and brothers] soon recognized the ethnological importance of their discovery, and have provisionally named the people who buried in these older graves the ‘Basket-Makers’. 1904 A. J. Burdick Mystic Mid-region, Deserts of Southwest 92 The basket-makers of that time had all the skill that is known to their descendants to-day. 1938 Southwestern Lore June 5 (D.A.) We now place the beginning of the Basket Maker II period as about the opening of the Christian Era and its end about 400 a.d., with the Basket Maker III period lasting up to 700 a.d. 1948 A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (rev. ed.) xviii. 806 The Basket Maker and Pueblo cultures are continuous in character as well as in time... The..sequence begins with Basket Maker II, stage I having been left for an as yet undiscovered culture which was inferred as earlier. < as lemmas |
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