A Hohokam petroglyph site near Badger Springs AZ

Politics is applied ethics

No matter how the election turns out today the Hohokam will still be gone and eventually so will we. From the archeological record we haven’t been able to deduce what caused the Hohokam to stop thriving and to eventually abandon the massive irrigation system and the large villages they had built along the Salt and Gila Rivers. With a lot more information, including a written record, we aren’t absolutely sure what caused the Roman Empire to falter and fall about 300CE.

I’ve started working as a volunteer docent at the Pueblo Grande Museum and while I’m learning my stuff I will write blog posts about lots of my discoveries. In this age of Google and Wikipedia it is possible to know almost any fact. But in the archeological record that the Hohokam left there is much that we don’t know. I like to think of it as the anti-google. In the next post we’ll explore why the Hohokam made stone donuts.