"A barren landscape" an interesting way to describe one of the most biologically diverse parts of the usa. Decent video but gotta work on that pronunciation. Few little nit picks the switch from cremation to burials didnt happen in the Tucson basin and was mainly a Phoenix basin thing, there are actually a lot of differences between the hohokam of the tucson basin and those of the Phx basin. Im pretty sure the site of Casas Grande/Paquiméin mexico didnt really start developing until the end of the precalssic period of the Hohokam when the use of mesoamerican ritual goods was starting to decrease. Also when americans first started moving into the region in the mid 1800s the O'odham were growing millions of pounds of wheat with irrigation farming techniques. Its just that by the time the early anthro/archaeologists started investigating them the water had been diverted upstream of them and left them impoverished and unable to continue a irrigation based lifeway and ended their traditional ways of life and was the beginning of their forced assimilation...

I’m O’odham, born and raised on the GRIC. Im from the Coyote clan of Snake Town. It’s crazy to see and hear all this, but makes my heart warm. I grew up collecting broken pottery pieces in my vast desert of a back yard. Now as an adult when I look at the pieces I cry just knowing that they are hundreds of yrs old. I was in elementary in the 80’s-90’s when the AZ government flooded the Gila River ruining the banks, then damming it in up and it hasn’t flown since. But despite the damming my ppl still thrives and still farming. Thanks for sharing and posting.

I think about the Hohokam every time someone tells me that Arizona is an “unlivable wasteland.”

Wake up Ancient Americas just dropped

The Hohokam are a prime example of how no matter how extreme and harsh an environment might be, humans will still find a way to adapt and thrive.

It’s so interesting learning about other native tribes. Saddening that the US school system doesn’t even highlight the impact us Natives had on this land. Thanks for all the work you do to make these videos! Yakoke (Thank you in Choctaw) 😁

The Sonoran Desert and specifically the Sonoran state is one of my favorite places on Earth

Born and raised in Az back when it was still dirt rural roads. No one from other states moved in until much later.  1970’s still see Apache ladies wearing their traditional long skirts and tops.  I wished I’d never taken all that for granted since it’s all gone now.

Most underrated history channel

Brilliant episode, thank you for the time and effort you put into your work. It fills that big void of ignorance that is a legacy of the education system in both the US and Canada. Archeology exists, and is dynamic and largely unexplored in North America, it isn’t just found in exotic places!

It’s nice to know that there are other ancient structures that still function today that aren’t Roman. And that native Americans get some credit for their amazing achievements.

My family is from Somerton, Az. My uncles and grandparents would speak of the old ones in Hohokam, time. They also repeated much of the Star Children, and the place in the northern skies. I have a small carved clay figure of a man I received when I was fifteen years old. It's falling apart. Dreams are also a part of us.

Love this channel. Another priceless gem of information pulled from the archives. How lucky am I to have found your channel!

Really good video, thanks!  I'm an Arizona native, and sadly much of our Native American culture was ignored in our history classes.  I hope schools are including more about them now.  There are some great ruins in the Verde Valley and near Roosevelt lake that are fascinating.  Not Hohokam, but also farming communities.  The Yavapai-Apache tribe still has reservation land here as well.

So glad I found this.  My grandfather was Emil Haury [Emil pronounced AE-mulh, not Eh-meal, BTW, and Haury pronounced HOW-ree.] the archaeological head of both the 1934 and 1964-1965 excavations at Snaketown and one of the archaeologists who promoted the idea of the Hohokam as a distinct culture.  I knew several generalities and even several details of Hokoham culture, but I won't pretend I ever pursued it as a primary subject of leaning.  Thus, I learned a fair number of things watching your video, and I appreciate that it was there to see.

“The Finished People” is such a badass exonym damn

Thanks so much for this video. I lived many years in southern Arizona and had friends that had studied the prehistoric cultures. We talked and theorized about the Hohokam years ago, and more recently as access to information was made easier with internet, I have investigated more. I'm amazed at how little mainstream interest is shown for this incredible culture and what they accomplished. Thank you for taking the time to compile this information and then put it in a format that can be easily accessed by so many people. Well done!!!

The “modern world” tends to look down on societies that preceded them, considering them somehow backward and less intelligent. When you look at an ancient society that thrived for over a thousand years, our 400 or so years on the continent don’t seem such a big thing. Add in that we are still using their ancient technology, even adapted, and I keep listening for the Hohokam equivalent of: “What else you got, kid?”

I know that I always comment on your stuff but while rewatching a classic I did just want to re-emphasise how incredible your channel is. You are such an incredible and well researched storyteller. Please never quit.

Lived in Arizona, 1965-70, always interested, I loved the Superstitions Mountains.