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: They were named " Basketmakers " for their skill in making baskets for storing food, covering with pitch to heat water, and using to toast seeds and nuts.

They wove bags, sandals, belts out of yucca plants and leaves-and strung beads.

They occasionally lived in dry caves where they dug pits and lined with stones to store food.

These people were ancestors of the pueblo people of the Hovenweep pueblo settlement and Mesa Verde.