
It is suggested that this term be confined to the culture pattern which developed in the Gila Valley and thus to separate the Hohokam from those Amargosans who developed in the Sonoran Brownware tradition, who might be called the "Ootam. A redefinition of the term "Hohokam" is proposed.

Yuman entry into the South-west is thought to be late, opposing Schroeder's Hakatayan theory. Descendants of captive Hohokam survive as the Buzzard and Red Ant moieties of the Papago and Pima. Native American Facts For Kids was written for young people learning about the Hopi Indian tribe for school or home-schooling reports The Anasazi Indians of Mesa Verde are the focus of this art and social studies lesson 9 million acres in southeastern Utah into a national monument to protect the ruins of the Anasazi civilization as well as the. At that time, Piman-speaking Sobaipuri from the east, belonging to the Sonoran Brownware tradition, invaded the Hohokam territory and conquered it. 1400, with varying rates of accretions of traits and immigrants from the homeland. There the culture developed and expanded until A.D. Given the corridor of Piman speakers from south to north, a group of these southern people is thought to have brought the Vahki phase of the Hohokam, en bloc, to Snaketown on the Gila River, about 300 B.C. Hall marks of the Hohokam tradition included red-on-buff pottery, large-scale canal irrigation agriculture, and monumental buildings, including ball. From 0 AD to 1400 AD, the Hohokam Indians of the Salt River Valley, in what is now Phoenix, Arizona, had a thriving culture that could have topped 40,000 in. developed irrigation to manage the water supply. competed with the Pueblo peoples for scarce resources. 1150 due to soil exhaustion and prolonged drought. Bayman1 The Hohokam reached an apex of sociopolitical development between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries in the Sonoran Desert of North America. The Hohokam, Mogollon, and Anasazi peoples who lived in present-day Arizona and New Mexico around A.D.

At the extreme southern end of the range, Amargosans were in contact with Mesoamerican culture, and they acquired pottery making, canal irrigation, and other specialized traits from this contact. The Hohokam of Southwest North America James M. 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. It is proposed that the Amargosans spoke an ancestral Piman tongue and that the present range of Piman speakers, from the Gila River to the Río Santiago in Jalisco, represents the extent of the Amargosan occupation. The Hohokam were a prehistoric people that inhabited the Sonoran desert of central Arizona from about AD 300 to AD 1400. Very reasonable admission price, and on this hot day, they had umbrellas that visitors could use.

Inside is lots of information about these ancient people with some interactive exhibits, and then outside are the ruins that you can walk through. The present weight of evidence indicates that the Sierra Pinacate, Sonora, was an enclave occupied continuously from the end of the Altithermal period by people of the Amargosa complex, who, as Areneños, spoke a dialect of Papago in historic times. Great museum telling the story of the Hohokam Indians.
