People / group
Hohokam culture
Archaeological culture of the Sonoran Desert in south-central Arizona and northern Sonora, from roughly the early first millennium AD to the 15th century, known for its irrigation canals along the Salt and Gila rivers — described as the most complex in the pre-contact Americas — and for its ballcourts, platform mounds, red-on-buff pottery and shell jewellery. The name, borrowed from the O'odham language, was applied by the archaeologist Harold S. Gladwin in the 1930s; local tradition holds that the Hohokam may have been ancestors of the Akimel and Tohono O'odham.
- Events
- 1 event
- Regions
- North America
- In the threads
- North America (11th–15th c.)
Events
- Hohokam great houses and the collapse of the canal townsc. 1300 – c. 1450 · North America