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 …

Hohokam culture, prehistoric North American Indians who lived approximately from 200 to 1400 ce in the semiarid region of present-day central and southern Arizona, largely along the Gila and Salt …

The name Hohokam (pronounced with the accent on the last syllable) comes from the word Hoohoogum, the name given by the contemporary Native Americans in this area to the prehistoric …

In the Sonoran Desert regions of southern Arizona, researchers call this developing tradition the “Hohokam” culture.

the Hohokam landscape. This boulder, with an interesting design centered on the unusual protrusion, is part of a large rock art district encircling a series of mountain springs and water tanks, undoubtedly a …

Indigenous communities engineered waterways, built villages, and cultivated deep relationships with the desert. Hohokam survived and thrived.

Occupying the region around modern-day Phoenix along the Salt and Gila Rivers, the Hohokam were one of several relatively advanced cultures in the American Southwest during that period.