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The Hohokam were an ancient Native American culture centered on the present-US state of Arizona. The Hohokam are one of the four major cultures of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico in Southwestern archaeology. Considered part of the Oasisamerica tradition, the Hohokam established significant trading centers such as at Snaketown and are considered to be the builders of the original canal system around the Phoenix metropolitan area, which the Mormon pioneers rebuilt when they settled the Lehi area of Mesa near Red Mountain. Variant spellings in current, official usage include Hobokam, Huhugam and Huhukam.
The Hohokam culture was differentiated from others in the region in the 1930s by archaeologist Harold S. Gladwin, who applied the existing O'odham term for the culture, huhu-kam, meaning "all used up", to classify the remains he was excavating in the Lower Gila Valley. According to the National Park Service Website, Hohokam is an O'odham word used by archaeologists to identify a group of people who lived in the Sonoran Desert.
According to local oral tradition, the Hohokam may be the ancestors of the historic Pima and Tohono O'odham peoples in Southern Arizona. Recent academic research focused on the Sobaipuri, ancient ancestors of the modern Pima, indicates that Pima groups were present in the region at the end of the Hohokam sequence.
Usage examples of "hohokam".
Joanna been going to the Hohokam Resort Hotel that evening instead of later on during the week, it would have been easy to find.
Since the Hohokam Resort Hotel was only a half mile away from campus, Joanna had no reason to pack very much to take with her from dorm to hotel room.
Although her dormitory accommodations and the main room at the Hohokam were similar in size, shape, and layout, there were definite differences.
When that was finished, Joanna tore it out of her notebook, folded the pages together, and placed them into an official Hohokam Resort Hotel envelope.
She was supposed to come to the Hohokam this afternoon to have Thanksgiving dinner with my family.
They were now in the process of driving her back to the Hohokam, where Bob Brundage and Eleanor Lathrop were suppose to join them for an early lunch in the coffee shop before Bob caught a plane back to Washington D.
The houses of the Hohokam had intrigued him, and the spring there never failed.
Canyon of the Hohokam into a wide sweep of desert land, bringing them down again before a carefully camouflaged installation.
Both facedown, both open to pages that featured illustrations of Mimbres, Hohokam, and Anasazi pots.
Two or three books on Mimbres, and Hohokam, and Anasazi pottery evolution.
The Mogollon of the eastern region, the Anasazi of the northeastern highlands, and the Hohokam of southern Arizona, who had been able to raise crops in a barren desert because of the irrigation ditches they had scraped out with stones and shells.
The names of their ancient groups were Anasazi, Hohokam, Mimbres and Mogollon according to their place of residence and each of the contemporary pueblos usually carry Spanish names.
In her anthropology classes, she had learned of the cultures that had built the great red sandstone monuments therethe Anasazi, Sinagua, Hohokam, and Mogollonbut she had never seen the structures in person.
Hohokam what your Papago kinfolk call the old time pueblo farmers who dug all those canals across a desert that must have been a tad less sand in their day?
The lawn was covered with the fresh Bermuda grass, planted three weeks before, new as the houses in this just-built development of Hohokam Homes.