December 2025 Tidbits from the Museum Series

FROM:  Bill Myers

Tidbits from the Museum Series

Episode #2: Hohokam Culture

The Hohokam is the name given by archaeologist to a prehistoric culture centered along
the Salt, Gila, Verde, and the Santa Cruz Rivers in the low, hot Sonoran desert of southern
Arizona between approximately 300 BC and 1450 AD. The Hohokam lived in semisubterranean pit house villages. They built extensive networks of irrigation canals along
the major rivers, and grew maize, squash, cotton, beans, agave and tobacco. They
produced Red on Buff and Brown pottery.

Hohokam Pottery collection from RRHS Museum