Multiple hypotheses have been proposed with varying levels of support, but all have been plagued by contradictions, or fail to offer adequate explanation broad phenomena at issue. Unprecedented in size, Hohokam canals often extended to 16 miles or more in length.

1200В1450) Hohokam society remains a challenge for anthropologists. Despite generations of research, understanding the decline of Classic period (A.D. These include the destruction archaeological record that holds clues to similar problems in the past. However, the Consolidated Canal, nearer to the river, was repeatedly damaged by floods. Originally, the South Canal was only 2 miles long before splitting into the Consolidated and Eastern canals. While you still have a chance to check out the show, which will. Over the past 100-plus years, nine major canals have emerged across the greater Valley. By about A.D. In 1917, operation of the canal system was turned over to the Salt River Valley Water Users Association, which still operates the canals for the federal government today. Phoenix and its suburbs are rapidly growing cities with looming social and environmental concerns. The South Canal was built by the federal government between 19 to unify the entire southside canal system. This month, Jackalope Ranch opened its first curated exhibition, You Are Here: A Collection of Maps of Phoenix, at Regular Gallery. A.D.500, perhaps related to an early canal system that the Hohokam built at the southern edge of the site in the area now called Park of Four Waters. D o e l l e anD IntroductIon Buried beneath Phoenix, Arizona, are the remains of a once prosperous irrigation society known to archaeologists as 'Hohokam' and to local Native peoples (the Akimel O'odham and the Tohono O'odham ) as 'Huhugkam.'1 Phoenix is the largest American city north of Mexico underlain by such extensive remains predating European contact, and was so named in hopes that a new civilization would 'rise from the ashes' ancient. The вЂњCollapseвЂќ of Cooperative Hohokam Irrigation in the Lower Salt River Valley The вЂњCollapseвЂќ of Cooperative Hohokam Irrigation in the Lower Salt River Valley

Hohokam canal system map