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The Hohokam cultivated varieties of cotton, tobacco, maize, beans, and squash, and harvested a vast variety of wild plants. Late in the Hohokam Chronological Sequence, they also used extensive dry-farming systems, mainly to grow agave for food and fiber. Their agricultural strategies were vital in the inhospitable desert, and allowed the ...
Los Muertos is situated west of Chandler and near Tempe, [3] in the Salt River valley of southern Arizona. [4] It covers an area greater than 2 square miles (5.2 km 2) along the borders of a canal or artificial river, measuring almost 6 by 1 mile (9.7 km × 1.6 km). [5]
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. The Hohokam may have been the ancestors of the historic Akimel O'odham (Pima) and Tohono O'odham peoples in Southern Arizona. [2] The reason for which the Hohokam abandoned the area is unknown.
The Hohokam Pima National Monument is an ancient Hohokam village within the Gila River Indian Community, near present-day Sacaton, Arizona. The monument features the archaeological site Snaketown 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Phoenix, Arizona , [ 6 ] designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964. [ 3 ]
A map showing the extent of the Hohokam, Mogollon, and Ancestral Puebloan cultures circa 1350 CE. Paleo-Indians are believed to have first settled present-day Arizona at least 13,000 years ago. Clovis spear points have been discovered in several locations along the San Pedro River, including at the Naco and Lehner Mammoth Kill Sites.
The Tempe Beach Stadium – The baseball field was built in 1927, and the cobblestone wall which was built around the park in 1934. The Tempe Beach Stadium is located in the corner of 1st St. and Ash Ave. The property was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on January 7, 1985.
The Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve, formerly known as the Deer Valley Rock Art Center, [1] is a 47-acre nature preserve featuring over 1500 Hohokam, Patayan, and Archaic petroglyphs visible on 500 basalt boulders in the Deer Valley area of Phoenix, Arizona. [2]
[15] [16] Hohokam is a present-day name given to the occupants of central and southern Arizona who lived here between about the year 1 and 1450 CE (current era). It is derived from the Pima Indian (Akimel O'odham) word for "those who have gone" or "all used up". The Hohokam inhabitation of the valley is broken up by paleontologists into five ...