How did the mogollon survive?

The Mogollon lived in cliff dwellings around 1270 – 1300 AD. The cliff dwelling contained rooms for living, food storage and ceremonies. Often many families lived together in these homes. Walls are built into natural caves to form rooms.

1. How did the Mogollon people survive?
2. How did the Mogollon use the land in Arizona to survive?
3. Where did the Mogollon live in?
4. In what ways was art important to the Mogollon?
5. What did they eat Mogollon?
6. What language did the Mogollon speak?
7. How did the Mogollon use the land?
8. What did the Mogollon people do first in NM?
9. What was Mogollon lifestyle like?
10. Did the Mogollon farm?
11. How did the Jornada live?
12. What did the Mogollon hunt?
13. What shelter did the Coahuiltecans live in?
14. How did Hohokam Mogollon and Anasazi peoples work together?

How did the Mogollon people survive?

During the Mogollon 1 period, the people lived in small villages of circular wattle-and-daub pit houses, the floors of which were from 10 to 40 inches (25 to 100 cm) below ground level; entrance was usually through tunnels.

How did the Mogollon use the land in Arizona to survive?

Near their villages, on floodplains or alluvial slopes, the Hohokam established fields of corn, beans, squash, and cotton. They used every possible space to grow crops, even building small terraces and check dams on hill slopes to collect and divert rainfall runoff toward their fields.

Where did the Mogollon live in?

The Mogollon might well be referred to as “Mountain Peoples” because they inhabited the rugged, high-elevation mountain and canyon country of eastern Arizona and western New Mexico, far northwestern Texas, northern Chihuahua, Mexico, and perhaps the far northeastern corner of Sonora, Mexico.

In what ways was art important to the Mogollon?

While acknowledging that much of the rock art is, without question, related to Jornada Mogollon spirituality, a few researchers have suggested that some images may have served to mark prehistoric clans or social groupings, territorial boundaries, important trails and water sites.

What did they eat Mogollon?

In order to feed their families, the Mogollon grew corn, squash, beans, and amaranth (a grain like wheat). They also grew cotton for clothing. ... Corn, however, was the main food they grew and ate. Here are some corn cobs found on the floor of the Gila Cliff Dwellings in New Mexico.

What language did the Mogollon speak?

Given evidence of influence of the Mogollon on groups among the most southeastern historic Puebolan groups who spoke Piro and Tompiro during historic types, it is possible that some Mogollon groups including the Mimbres may have spoken Tanoan languages.

How did the Mogollon use the land?

These were circular or oval rooms dug into the ground, which helped to maintain a comfortable temperature. Mogollon people practiced agriculture (primarily growing maize, beans, and squash), but also relied on hunting and foraging.

What did the Mogollon people do first in NM?

With stimulus from the north and an increase in population, the Mogollon people began to give up their traditional pit house lodging, and like the ancestral Pueblo peoples, they started to build communities of above-ground masonry structures, one-or two story clusters of rooms, often with common walls.

What was Mogollon lifestyle like?

They may have lived in fear of raids by nomadic bands who still clung to a predominantly hunting and gathering way of life. The early Mogollon lived in semi-subterranean lodges, or "pithouses," which consisted of excavated holes typically covered by domed roofs.

Did the Mogollon farm?

The Mogollon were, initially, foragers who augmented their subsistence efforts by farming. Through the first millennium CE, however, dependence on farming probably increased.

How did the Jornada live?

The Jornada Mogollon was a group of farmers living in houses in small villages throughout the southwest. At first, they lived in pithouses. Pithouses are circular houses dug out of the ground and framed with wood beams. Later, Jornada Mogollon peoples began to build square houses using adobe mud to construct walls.

What did the Mogollon hunt?

The Mogollon obtained most of their food by hunting and by gathering wild seeds, roots, and nuts. At first they hunted mostly small prey, such as rabbits and lizards, that could be caught in nets or snares. Later they hunted deer and other larger game.

What shelter did the Coahuiltecans live in?

For shelter, the pre-holocaust Coahuiltecans used wickiup huts sometimes. There are Spanish descriptions of these huts called wickiups. Check out our Wickiup page to see one of these huts being built. Before the climate changed there was more food and sometimes it was possible to camp in one place for a longer time.

How did Hohokam Mogollon and Anasazi peoples work together?

Rainfall farming in the Anasazi area created Ioose-knit settlements spread over a broad area, but agriculture in the Hohokam desert required irrigation and, consequently, dense settlements along the canals with which Hohokam farmers brought water to their fields.