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<< Text Pages >> Park of the Canals - Ancient Village or Settlement in United States in The Southwest

Submitted by bat400 on Wednesday, 20 June 2007  Page Views: 4364

Multi-periodSite Name: Park of the Canals
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 22.408 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The Southwest Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Mesa, Arizona  Nearest Village: Mesa, Arizona
Latitude: 33.444389N  Longitude: 111.815667W
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Ancient Village or Settlement in Arizona. The Hohokam people of the American southwest occupied this area a thousand years ago and grew crops through the use of extensive canal irrigation. This small park contains stretches of some of the best preserved canals and interpretive information.

In the area of what is now Phoenix the Hohokam took water from the Salt River. Before the use of modern dams and reservoirs, the Salt River ran year round. In some cases the remains of their canals were reused by European settlers starting in the 1800s. A major, modern canal runs directly by these preserved beds of the ancient canals.
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Hohokam Indian canal system unearthed by Andy B on Monday, 14 April 2014
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Originally submitted by coldrum on Tuesday, 26 July 2005

Archaeologists working at a proposed development site in Mesa (Phoenix, Arizona) have unearthed one of the largest integrated canal systems the Hohokam Indians ever built in the Phoenix area. Twenty canals, uncovered during an ongoing archaeological survey of the 240-acre site, have been found since October. The largest measures 45 feet wide and 16 feet deep.

"They are the size of canals in Phoenix today, but these were done with digging sticks and baskets," said Tom Wilson, an archaeologist and director of the Mesa Southwest Museum. "There are some extraordinary things there."

Other archaeological remains were also found, including a half-dozen pit houses and hundreds of pottery fragments and artifacts.

Historians believe the Hohokam lived in central and southern Arizona for about 1,500 years, sometime between 300 B.C. and A.D. 1400. They were a largely agricultural community known for their sophisticated canal systems.

This spring, the development site was at the center of a fierce political fight over the merits of locating a Bass Pro Shops store or Wal-Mart Supercenter there. Meanwhile, the archaeological team was quietly working under the public radar to unearth construction that dates as early as A.D. 600.

More at KVOA TV, Tucson (archived)
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Modern, historic canals follow those of a vanished people by Andy B on Monday, 14 April 2014
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Originally submitted by coldrum on Wednesday, 20 June 2007
Phoenix, at 4 million residents, is growing faster than any other population center in the nation. But if you lift the rug of Phoenix, buried directly below you will find the remains of an ancient city, a Neolithic version of Phoenix.

The first communities appeared in the low basin of the Salt River 3,000 years ago, as shown by remains recently discovered under the new Phoenix Convention Center. From there, prehistoric settlements took an escalating course of empire, filling the basin to overflowing. They sprawled all the way south to present-day Tucson, while satellite communities appeared even north of what today is Flagstaff. They grew until they were no longer able to sustain themselves.

Then, their civilization fell.

The culture was known as Hohokam, a Pima word meaning "all used up." The doubled first syllable accentuates the sentiment, telling of a people who completely burned themselves out. When Anglo settlers arrived shortly after the Civil War, they found a desert studded with grand adobe ruins, vestiges of an inexplicable culture. They called their new settlement "Phoenix," imagining themselves rising from the ashes of a lost city.

The original Anglo settlers began digging canals in the mid-1800s, and wherever they dug, they unearthed the remains of Hohokam canals below. For the next 150 years, engineers planned new canals throughout this growing city, and nearly each one follows an original Hohokam grid, as if pouring water back into an ancient hydraulic empire, bringing a ghost to life. New and old waterways follow the same gradients, the same courses.

The Hohokams built nearly a thousand miles of canals and laterals, quenching fields of cotton, corn, pumpkins, amaranth and beans. They filled basins for domestic water at innumerable villages and town sites. Modern Phoenix followed suit, becoming a cotton-growing mecca, a city of water in the heart of the desert. Communities sprang up in the same places that Hohokam settlements once stood. Even the saline content of modern Phoenix's water matches the chemical signature of Hohokam water just before the fall. The two cities lie along a similar environmental trajectory, and they may face a similar end.

For more of this fasinating article comparing modern Pheonix to the Hohokam civilizatiion, including a sobering assessment from archaeologist Leonard Banks, see this Arizonal Republic article.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/viewpoints/articles/0513hohokam0513.html
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