Macrobotanical analysis of material from associated roasting pits implies some of the agave was processed and possibly consumed on-site, a ritualized practice carried on by historic and modern-day O’odham communities.
They also suggest Hohokam agriculturalists used these facilities to encourage certain economically important wild plants.
Pollen and phytolith analyses of soils from several of the farming features identified maize and agave as cultivars. Cotton was used for food (in the form of cottonseed cakes) and clothing (cotton fiber was spun into yarn. Crops included corn, squash, beans and cotton. Surface survey has identified a range of dry farming features and associated plant processing facilities along the northeast and southwest bajadas. Farming was the Hohokams main enterprise. the Salt River Floodplain: Refining Models and Analytical Methods, edited by T. This paper takes a close look at recent fieldwork around the South Mountains, an upland setting at the confluence of the Salt and Gila Rivers. The Hohokam, perhaps as much as, and probably more than, other southwestern groups, were energetic movers of dirt. In light of such achievement, dry farming technologies and practices remain a lesser known component of the Hohokam agricultural landscape. Hohokam communities who resided alongside the perennial rivers in south-central Arizona are renowned for the massive canals they engineered and operated, representing some of the largest preindustrial irrigation systems in the world.
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