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Mogollon

Mogollon region (green). It is near Hohokam culture (purple) and Anasazi (orange). The three most important archaeological sites in this region are Mesa Verde (1), Chaco Canyon (2) and Gila Cliff (3)

Culture Mogollon (pronounced "mogoillonne") flourished in the Southwest U.S. and northern Mexico, between the ^sixth century BC. BC and the ^fourteenth century. It has similarities with the neighboring cultures and contemporary Hohokam and Anasazi. The reasons for his disappearance are unclear. The remains of this culture can be visited in the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument in New Mexico.

Culture

The Mogollon lived over a huge territory, so they underwent very different natural constraints. They lived more products of hunting than agriculture (beans, squash), without knowledge of irrigation techniques . They lived in semi-subterranean houses (Pithouse English).

References

Anne-Garrit Bourrier, Monique Venuat, Indians in the United States: Renaissance of a culture, Paris, Ellipses, 2002, p.102
Jerry Brody, The Anasazi ..., page 45

Bibliography

Lucien Sebaq, The invention of the world among the Pueblo Indians, Paris, Maspero, 1971
Jerry Brody, The Anasazi: The first Indian American Southwest, Aix-en-Provence, Edisud, 1993
Noble, David Grant. Ancient Ruins of the Southwest. Northland Publishing, Flagstaff, Arizona, 1995. ISBN 0-87358-530-5.
Plog, Stephen. Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest. Thames and Hudson, London, England, 1997. ISBN 0-500-27939-X.

Internal Links

Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument , one of the Mogollon archaeological sites
Kokopelli

External Links

Official site

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