The Histatsinom, also known as the Ancestral Pueblo of the Basketmaker III Era, inhabited the area in and around the Grand Canyon around 500 B.C.E. These people utilized the natural troughs and levels created within the canyon to build shelters out of the mud and clay from the area. The many different kinds of rock that existed throughout the Grand Canyon would allow the Pueblos to begin constructing houses out of stone around 800 C.E., and officially begin the Pueblo period of the region. The Pueblo were able to use the volcanic rocks that existed in the bottom of the Grand Canyon to create stone tools; obsidian was used to arrowheads and crude blades, while basalt was used for hammers and axes because of its hardness. Pumice was also used in agriculture, as a way of releasing water slowly to crops to conserves water. Corn, beans, and squash were the main produce for the Pueblo. The Pueblos lived a simple, stable life until they were forced to move from the region by an unknown physical phenomenon (thought to be drought caused by climate change) in the late 1200s. Native American groups reestablished settlements a hundred years later, where they would stay until displaced by the United States Army, to Native American reservations in
The Histatsinom, also known as the Ancestral Pueblo of the Basketmaker III Era, inhabited the area in and around the Grand Canyon around 500 B.C.E. These people utilized the natural troughs and levels created within the canyon to build shelters out of the mud and clay from the area. The many different kinds of rock that existed throughout the Grand Canyon would allow the Pueblos to begin constructing houses out of stone around 800 C.E., and officially begin the Pueblo period of the region. The Pueblo were able to use the volcanic rocks that existed in the bottom of the Grand Canyon to create stone tools; obsidian was used to arrowheads and crude blades, while basalt was used for hammers and axes because of its hardness. Pumice was also used in agriculture, as a way of releasing water slowly to crops to conserves water. Corn, beans, and squash were the main produce for the Pueblo. The Pueblos lived a simple, stable life until they were forced to move from the region by an unknown physical phenomenon (thought to be drought caused by climate change) in the late 1200s. Native American groups reestablished settlements a hundred years later, where they would stay until displaced by the United States Army, to Native American reservations in