In central Arizona, Mogollon culture shows subtle differences in architecture and artifacts from those of the Anasazi. This is a typical "quartered" design, with the bowl being divided into 4 quarters, each containing the same repeated design.Īnonymous gift facilitated by Walter Knox, Scottsdale, AZ MogollonĬovering an area extending from central Arizona and southwestern New Mexico to a point 400 miles south of the Mexican border, Mogollon culture includes many regional variations. This example dates to the late Santa Cruz Phase of the Colonial Period approximately 900 CE. This is an extremely large example of a Hohokam helmet pot, so named because of its resemblance to a World War I army helmet. Their descendants, the O'odham People of the Salt and Gila River communities carry on a vibrant, living culture today. Related to cultures to the south, the Hohokam made large ball courts and played a version of the Mesoamerican ballgame with balls made from a natural rubber in Mexico and traded north.īy 1150 they began to construct large temple mounds, including the Mesa Grande platform mound recently opened to the public by the Arizona Museum of Natural History. Beginning as early as 1200 BCE, their predecessors, known as the "Early Agricultural Period" people, began to construct large irrigation systems along the Santa Cruz River.īy 1 CE, Hohokam culture appears and they begin building the largest and most sophisticated irrigation systems in the New World. All dates are BCE (Before Current Era, or BC) and CE (Current Era, or AD).Īlong the rivers of the Arizona desert a unique culture, the Hohokam, arose and flourished. Tuesday September 26Ĭontact Old Pueblo Archaeology Center to register:ĥ2 or Valley” watercolor by C.The arid deserts and high plateaus of the American Southwest gave rise to three unique prehistoric cultures, Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi), Mogollon and Hohokam. Reservations and payment required by 5 p.m. Fish, editors available from Old Pueblo for $24.95 (Old Pueblo & PGMA members $19.96). The fee is $95 ($80 for members of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Arizona Archaeological Society, or Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary) does not include the cost of Arizona Archaeological Society membership or AAS Certification Program registration or cost of recommended text: The Hohokam Millennium by Paul R. Classes are held at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 2201 W. Students seeking the AAS Certification are expected to prepare a BRIEF research report to be presented orally or in written form. The class covers Hohokam origins, subsistence and settlement systems, social and organizational systems, material culture including ceramics, other artifacts, and architecture, interaction within and beyond the Hohokam culture’s regional boundaries, and ideas on religion and trade. 24) from 6:30-8:30pm, archaeologist Allen Dart will be teaching the adult-education class “Prehistory of the Southwest: The Hohokam Culture of Southern Arizona.” Dart teaches this class in ten 2-hour sessions to explore the archaeology of the ancient Hohokam culture of the American Southwest. Beginning September 29 through December 8, 2017, each Friday evening (skip Thanksgiving weekend, Nov.
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