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Hohokam, n. and a.|həʊhəʊˈkɑːm|
[ad. Pima hóhokam those who have gone.]
A. n.
a. An extinct people of North American Indians.
b. The culture of this people, centred in Arizona and flourishing after c 450, characterized by irrigated agriculture and houses built in pits.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people or culture.
1884A. F. Bandelier in Archæol. Inst. Amer. Rep. V. 80 The Casa Blanca and all the ruins of the Gila were the abode of the fore-fathers of the Pimas, designated by them as ‘Vĭ-pĭ-sĕt’ (great-grandparents), or ‘Ho-ho-q̌om’ (the extinct ones). 1912J. W. Fewkes Casa Grande, Ariz. 153 The Pima name Hohókam may be adopted to designate this ancestral stock, to whom may be ascribed the erection of the casas grandes on the Gila. 1937Southwestern Lore Dec. 54 As a result of investigations conducted at Winona Village certain archaeological discoveries have definitely explained the affiliation with the Hohokam Culture. 1940E. Fergusson Our Southwest 116 What happened to the early Hohokam people is still in dispute. 1948A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (ed. 2) xviii. 809 Parallel to the Anasazi development is the Hohokam one of lowland, desert, torrid southern Arizona. Ibid., Ceremonial kivas did not develop among the Hohokam, but there were dugout courts for a ritual ball game. |