The Hohokam engineered and built "the largest prehistoric irrigation system in North America," according to John P. Andrews and Todd W. Bostwick in their book Desert Farmers at the River’s Edge: The Hohokam and Pueblo Grande." The Hohokam constructed labyrinthine canal systems to irrigate their...
Based on this analysis, a stylized formal model is developed to explore the possibility that the success of the Hohokam irrigation system and associated social structure may have increased their vulnerability to rare climactic shocks.doi:10.1017/S1744137406000312...
The Hohokam culture, one of the major pre-Columbian cultural groups in the American Southwest, is well known for their extensive irrigation systems, the largest in the New World. Choreographing the movement of people and scheduling the cleaning and repair of their canals during low water periods,...
(redirected fromHohokams) Encyclopedia Ho·ho·kam (hə-hō′kəm) n.pl.HohokamorHo·ho·kams A member of a Native American culture flourishing from about the 3rd centurybcto the mid-15th centuryadin south-central Arizona, noted for the construction of an extensive system of irrigation ca...
This irrigation system was an integral part of Hohokam life and had been a productive force in regional economics for more than a millennium. However, it was largely abandoned during the 15th century and not substantially reclaimed until Euro-American settlement in the late 1800s ( Abbott 2003 ...
Archaeology Exploring complexity in the past| The Hohokam Water Management Simulation THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA John S. Lansing MurphyJohn ToddThe Hohokam Water Management Simulation (HWM) is a computer simulation for exploring the operation of the Hohokam irrigation systems in southern Arizona. The ...
This article presents evidence for an ancient irragric anthrosol in the North American Southwest, along the Snaketown Canal System in the Middle Gila River Valley, Arizona. This pedostratigraphic unit was formed as a result of a millennium of irrigation by Hohokam farmers from A.D. 450 to ...
The Hohokam Water Management Simulation (HWM) is a computer simulation for exploring the operation of the Hohokam irrigation systems in southern Arizona. The simulation takes a middle road between two common kinds of archaeological simulation: large-scale, detailed landscape and environmental ...
When European explorers arrived in the Lower Salt River Valley (LSRV), modern day Phoenix and its suburbs, in the 17century, they found no indication of permanent occupation, despite finding the ruins of large villages and a large-scale irrigation system. Recent research of a large, ...
(redirected fromHohokam tradition) Ho·ho·kam (hə-hō′kəm) n.pl.HohokamorHo·ho·kams A member of a Native American culture flourishing from about the 3rd centurybcto the mid-15th centuryadin south-central Arizona, noted for the construction of an extensive system of irrigation canals...