men hunted deer, big horn sheep, bison and antelope with the atlatl and darts. Although the number of people increased during the Archaic era, they traveled in small groups throughout the arid lowlands of juniper and sage to the moister climate of the pinyon forest about in elevation. Different sets of projectile points were found within a regional geographic area, made from local stone, an indication that Archaic people ranged across shorter expanses of land. Since they more fully utilized diverse plant and game resources within a region, they didn't need to travel as far to find food. The different shaped tools may have been used for people to identify themselves. The bands of people likely socialized with neighboring tribes, rather than people from distant lands. Based upon the introduction of cultivation, new dwelling types and artifacts, it is believed that people from southern Arizona and New Mexico moved north and integrated with bands of people in the Colorado Plateau. By the end of the period, some people cultivated food and became less mobile, but agriculture would not be consistently adopted until the 1st century CE in the Early Basketmaker II Era. Excavation of their campsites and rock shelters revealed that the Archaic-Early Basketmaker people made baskets, tools, gathered wild plants, and killed and processed game. Slab-lined storage cists, found both inside and outside of shelters, were used to store food which indicates a change from a totally nomadic lifestyle. Basketmaker origin The population of the Basketmaker people is likely not tied to one particular group of people, but reflective of the migration of agricultural people from the south and adoption of agriculture by local Archaic populations. For instance, people on the Mogollon Rim of New Mexico had cultivated maize and adopted a less transitory lifestyle before the Early Basketmaker people. Projectile points, a basketry style known as "two rod and bundle", and other similarities existed between artifacts of the Early and Late Basketmaker II Eras and the San Pedro stage of the Cochise tradition. To adopt the Basketmaker lifestyle, Archaic people would have adopted the cultivation of maize, a less mobile lifestyle and taken up residence in pit-houses. Other differences between the Archaic and Basketmaker cultures were the forms of basketry, symbols used in petroglyphs, burial practices and volume of traded items. Shelters Since the people of the Archaic–Early Basketmaker Era were nomadic hunter gatherers who roamed the Colorado