The Hohokam: Masters of the Desert
Lecture no. 17 from the course: Ancient Civilizations of North America
Taught by Professor Edwin Barnhart | 28 min | Categories: History
Learn about the Hohokam, a people who made beautiful art, employed cooperative decision making with strong centralized leadership, and developed extensive public architecture. But see why their real claim to fame was building more than 700 miles of sophisticated irrigation canals—the largest and most highly-engineered irrigation system constructed in the Pre-Columbian New World—segments of which are still visible today.