Hohokam

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The Hohokam tradition extends from 2000 to 500 BP (AD 1-1500) in southern and central Arizona of the United States. The Hohokam were desert farmers who built irrigation canals with communal labor. They had distinctive red-on-buff ceramics, worked marine shell, turquoise inlay, clay effigies, and ground stone palettes and censers. Interregional trade included raw materials and finished goods. Settlement hierarchies included primary and secondary ritual and administrative centers along with smaller communities and hamlets. Their larger primary and secondary settlements included house compounds, trash mounds, ballcourts, capped trash mounds, plazas, and platform mounds. They were governed by chiefdoms and priesthoods and by the end of the tradition may even have had small states.

Identifier

Region

• North America

Subregion

• Southwest and Basin

Subsistence Type

• intensive agriculturalists

Samples

• SRS

Countries

• United States