The word Hohokam is a Piman language term for “all used up” or “exhausted,” and the name given by archeologists to the ancient farming peoples of the southern deserts of Arizona. The Hohokam lived in the Phoenix Basin along the Gila and Salt Rivers, in southern Arizona along the Santa Cruz and San Pedro Rivers, and north on the Lower Verde River and along the New and Agua Fria Rivers.
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- Locations: Amistad National Recreation Area, Aztec Ruins National Monument, Big Bend National Park, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, more »
In the arid Southwest, water means life, and prehistorically, rivers were the lifelines of the people.
- Locations: Amistad National Recreation Area, Big Bend National Park, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Chiricahua National Monument, more »
The Southern Basin and Range is an extension of the Basin and Range Province centered on Nevada and the Great Basin and extending from southern Oregon to western Texas, and into northwest Mexico.
The Hohokam were, in the words of archeologist Emil Haury, “masters of the desert.” Their cultural pattern existed from the first years A.D. through about A.D. 1450, barely 90 years before Spanish explorers arrived in the Southwest. During this time, they achieved remarkable successes.
Last updated: March 27, 2018