![]() Great multiple-storied community houses with massive walls of adobe began to be built, along with the older, more easily constructed pit houses some houses were also built on top of platform mounds. The principal effect of their presence is revealed in the advent of Pueblo architecture in Hohokam territory. They came from the upper reaches of the Salt River, lived in Hohokam territory for several decades, then withdrew and disappeared. The Classic Period of Hohokam culture is notable for the peaceful intrusion of the Salado tribe, a branch of the Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi) culture. A major technological achievement was the casting of copper bells in wax molds. Corn and cotton were cultivated with ever more extensive irrigation systems. ![]() During this period a few villages were surrounded by walls, and platform mounds made their first appearance. ![]() Villages continued to consist of collections of pit houses, which had become slightly better-reinforced. The Hohokam area of occupation reached its maximum geographic extent during the Sedentary Period. Pottery improved, becoming thinner and stronger, and styles were borrowed from neighbouring peoples. Cotton was added to corn as a major crop, and irrigation canals proliferated the Hohokam began to make canals narrower and deeper in order to minimize water loss through ground absorption and evaporation. Village architecture changed little, except for the addition of ball courts similar to those of the Maya. Native American: Southwestern cultures: the Ancestral Pueblo, Mogollon, and Hohokamĭuring the subsequent Colonial Period, Hohokam culture expanded to influence all of what is now the southern half of Arizona.
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