Hohokam

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• Specifically, the Hohokam of the American Southwest not only had plaster-lined canals and permanent sluice gates but also had them very early.

  Academic text (1995)

• After about A.D. 1100, for reasons not fully understood, the Chaco Canyon Anasazi and Phoenix Basin Hohokam societies began to collapse.

  Academic text (2004)

• To the south were the Hohokam, who engineered hundreds of miles of canals to water their desert fields.

  Academic text (2004)

• The thinking that went behind this document, however, was inspired more by indigenous customs and values, such as those handed down from the time of the Hohokam.

  Academic text (2010)

• Beyond the Pueblo region, there was the remarkable Hohokam civilization in southern Arizona, and of course there were Mesoamerican cultures far to the south.

  Academic text (2009)

• This area has a long history of water development, starting with the Hohokam Indians, who irrigated extensive parts of the Salt River Valley from AD 300 to 1450.

  Academic text (2004)

• "Thin Leather" recalls a story about the Hohokam ruins that stand prominently near Florence, Arizona, ruins that belong to a culture as distant and mysterious to outsiders as the Anasazi ruins to the north.

  Academic text (2010)

• "At the time, a distinctive irrigation culture known as the Hohokam farmed the Phoenix Basin, while part-time agriculturalists, the Mogollon people, lived in the White Mountains of east-central Arizona."

  Academic text (2007)

• The Hohokam built extensive irrigation systems that transformed the arid landscape of Arizona.

• Researchers have discovered artifacts that provide insight into the daily lives of the Hohokam.

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