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The Hohokam of Southwest North America

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JOURNAL OF WORLD PREHISTORY
Volume 15, Issue 3, Pages 257-311

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SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013124421690

Keywords

archaeology; prehistoric; North America; Southwest

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The Hohokam reached an apex of sociopolitical development between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries in the Sonoran Desert of North America. Hallmarks of the Hohokam tradition included red-on-buff pottery, large-scale canal irrigation agriculture and monumental buildings, including ball courts, platform mounds, towers, and Great Houses. The development and elaboration of Hohokam society from their ceramic-producing predecessors during more than two millennia (ca. 1000 BC to AD 1450, or later) is a remarkable example of an arid land adaptation in the New World. The enigmatic 'collapse' of Hohokam society took place shortly before European colonialists entered the North American Southwest in the mid-sixteenth century. Various agents (e.g., floods, disease, warfare) of this event are poorly understood and require additional study. So, too, does the degree of historical continuity between contemporary indigenous people sand precontact archaeological cultures (e.g. Hohokam) in what is now Arizona and northern Mexico.

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