European settlers actually cleared out and reused many Hohokam canals hundreds of years later. There are more than 500 miles of documented canals in the region, representing the largest-scale irrigation in North America. Their vast canal networks include some canals more than 20 miles long. People in the Hohokam region employed massive-scale irrigation farming. Throughout their history, potters in the Hohokam region produced brown (in the Tucson Basin area) and buff (in the Phoenix Basin area) ware pottery, sometimes painted with geometric designs or life forms in red. Compound B at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument has two platform mounds. Larger villages then had a different kind of central construction: large platform mounds, often with structures on top, that appear to have been the place for religious and political activities. 1150 or 1200, people in the Hohokam region began building their houses as aboveground compounds within a walled courtyard. People probably used these for gatherings and for a ball game that was probably similar to those played among Mesoamerican societies. 8, many villages also had large earthen constructions that archaeologists identify as ballcourts. Archaeologists find these dwellings in sets of three or four around small courtyards. CiaccioĮarly Hohokam settlements consist of clusters of shallow pithouses. Note the pithouse architecture and the decorated and undecorated pottery.
This Hohokam community thrived in the northwest Tucson Basin. Unearthing pottery from the Hohokam society has given. Recent academic research focused on the Sobaipuri, ancient ancestors of the modern Pima, indicates that Pima groups were present in the region at the end of the Hohokam sequence.People who resided in the Hohokam (ho-ho-kahm) region were probably among the ancestors of contemporary southern desert populations, such as the O’odham, as well as Pueblo populations and perhaps other populations in northern Mexico. The Hohokam were a people group that lived in central Arizona around 30-1500 C.E. Pre Historic Native AmericanHohokam Plain Ware Pottery Olla Description: Pre-Historic Native American Hohokam Plain Ware Pottery Olla Condition: Excellent. The Colonial period witnessed the expansion of an irrigation system to support. National Park Service Website, Hohokam is a Pima (O'odham) word used by archaeologists to identify a group of people who lived in the Sonoran Desert of North America.Īccording to local oral tradition, the Hohokam may be the ancestors of the historic Akimel O'odham and Tohono O'odham peoples in Southern Arizona. Distinctive Hohokam pottery, shell, stone, and figurine artifacts were made. Gladwin, who applied the existing O'odham term for the culture, huhu-kam, meaning "all used up,to classify the remains he was excavating in the Lower Gila Valley.Īccording to the U.S. The Hohokam culture was differentiated from others in the region in the 1930s by archaeologist Harold S. Variant spellings in current, official usage include Hobokam, Huhugam and Huhukam. The Hohokam Peoples are one of the four major archaeological prehistoric Southwestern cultural divisions of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico.Ĭonsidered part of the Oasisamerica tradition, the Mogollon established significant trading centers such as at Snaketown and are considered to be the builders of the original canal system around the Phoenix metropolitan area, of which the Mormon pioneers rebuilt when they settled the Lehi area of Mesa near Red Mountain. The Hohokam (/hoʊhoʊˈkɑːm/) were an ancient Native American culture centered on the present-day US state of Arizona.
The canals required the organization and labor of thousands of people to build, maintain and operate. Life for the Hohokam focused, in large extent, on agriculture and growing crops. Description: Pre-Historic Native American Hohokam Plain Ware Pottery OllaĬondition: Excellent Condition for its age. Mural in the Arizona Museum of Natural History of the Rowley Site, near Park of the Canals in Mesa, c.
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