![]() ![]() What did Hohokam people eat?Ĭorn (maize), beans and squash were the three major crops in the prehistoric American Southwest and were also the principle foods of the Hohokam. The people abandoned their villages, perhaps dispersing over the landscape or joining other village groups. The Mogollon culture ended for unknown reasons in the 15th century. There is evidence from this period that Ancestral Pueblo and Mogollon individuals lived peacefully in the same villages. Despite this decline in numbers a smaller O’odham population survived and is a thriving culture today. ![]() They are thought to have originally migrated north out of Mexico around 300 BC to become the most skillful irrigation farmers the Southwest ever knew.įrom 1350 to 1450 the population plunges and traces of the Hohokam disappear from the archaeological record. The Hohokam peoples occupied a wide area of south-central Arizona from roughly Flagstaff south to the Mexican border. They hunted bighorn sheep, deer, and other animals there. The Hohokam were farmers who grew corn, beans, squash and agave. Michael Hampshire’s rendering of the large platform mound at Pueblo Grande on the north bank of the Salt River. The Hohokam people occupied the valley and much of southern Arizona from A.D. Who were the Hohokam and what did they do? 9 What was the original purpose of the Hohokam canals?.8 What kind of tools did the Hohokam Indians use?.7 Where did the Hohokam tribe get their water?.3 Where did the Hohokam Indians come from?.1 Who were the Hohokam and what did they do?. ![]()
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