| On and around it the Hohokam would have constructed houses of mud, stone, and cementlike caliche. |
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| Built about 700 years ago by the Hohokam Indians, it is among the largest prehistoric structures ever built in North America. |
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| In what is now Arizona, Hohokam Indians developed a remarkably sophisticated irrigation system. |
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| The Anasazi culture became the most extensive culture of the Southwest, and, along with the Hohokam and Mogollon cultures, the most influential. |
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| The early explorers encountered other less well-organized farming groups, descended from the Hohokam and Patayan traditions of the southwest, in scattered localities along the Gila, Salt, and Colorado rivers. |
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| Hohokam archaeological sites are scattered throughout. |
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| The horned serpent tradition, katsina ritual, the Hohokam preclassic, sacred datura, the pre-Columbian Venus, the ball game, and mortuary behavior are among their topics. |
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