Paradise in the Dry Land: The Hohokam and Salado in the Sonoran Desert

Images above: left=Sacaton Red-on-Buff from Snaketown; center=artists conception of Classic Period Casa Grande; right=Tonto polychrome from the Roosevelt Project

Background is a sample of the Sacaton (Sedentary Period) projectile points from Snaketown.

HOHOKAM ORIGINS

   Previous assumptions - immigrants from the south

   Current assumptions - The Early Farming Villages

Territory and Environment

    Flora and Fauna

The Hohokam Core Area concept

Chronology

Recent Early Period Chronology

Mesoamerican influences

        Pioneer-Colonial (Vahki, Estrella, Sweetwater)

            Ballcourts in the Hohokam Sphere

        Sedentary

            Snaketown

        Classic (Soho, Civano)

           Canal Irrigation and Social Complexity

        Post-Classic (Polvoron)

THE SALADO

THE PATAYAN

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