What is the main idea presented in this passage? The first Ancestral Puebloans settled in Mesa Verde (Spanish for "green table") about... 550. They are known as Basketmakers for their skill at the craft. Formerly nomadic, they were beginning to lead a more settled way of life. Farming replaced hunting and gathering as their main livelihood. They lived in pithouses clustered into small villages usually built on mesa tops but sometimes in cliff recesses. They learned to make pottery and acquired the bow and arrow, a more efficient weapon for hunting than the atlatl, a spear thrower.¹ O A. The Ancestral Puebloans developed a complex agricultural society. O B. The Puebloan bow and arrow was a more efficient weapon than the atlatl. C. Puebloan pit houses could be built on either Mesa tops or in cliff recesses. D. Life was typically harsh and difficult for the Ancestral puebloans.
