The Anasazi inhabited the area of the American Southwest known as the Four Corners from 1 to 1300 A.D. And while we call this ancient culture by a single name, the Anasazi people were actually two: Basketmakers and Puebloans. The Anasazi Basketmakers, as their name suggests, were adept at making baskets. They lived in small communities, made pottery and grew beans, squash and corn. But they weren't yet cliff dwellers. The Anasazi Basketmakers lived on the mesa top. And their homes were simple pithouses not adobe pueblos. Their descendents, the Anasazi Puebloans, developed that skill. The Anasazi Puebloans differed from their ancestors in other ways too. The Anasazi Puebloans were accomplished farmers; they terraced their fields and irrigated the land. What's more, the Anasazi Puebloans used the bow and arrow to hunt and, unlike their ancestors the Anasazi Basketmakers, they raised animals such as the turkey for food.