#Hohokam traditional plus
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Time permitting, students are given the opportunity to handle artifacts and make connections between the illustrations and the other items brought in by the archaeologist.

What is rock art? Explain the difference between pictographs and petroglyphs.

What did the Hohokam trade? Briefly describe how shell jewelry was made.

How did the Hohokam make flour? Show students how corn was ground.

What did the Hohokam cook in and store food in? Show students how the Hohokam ground clay and paint pigments and made clay pots.

What did the Hohokam hunt with? Briefly describe flaked stone tool making.

What did the Hohokam live in? Show the students the model of the pithouse.

Brief description of the artifact collection.

Artifacts’ role in interpreting the past.

Why is it important to look but leave in place? (Context).

Types of plants available for gathering.

What types of artifacts do archaeologists study?.

Is everyone who digs an archaeologist?.

Do archaeologists keep the artifacts that they find?.

They make the results of their work available to others.

Introduction: The archaeologist will discuss with the class what archaeologists are and what they do.

The hands-on materials and fun lesson plans in our “OPEN-OUT” programs bring archaeology and the past alive for your students.

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This outreach presentation includes real and replica artifacts, plus abundant illustrations to help children experience how prehistoric Native Americans of southern Arizona lived and to appreciate the arts they created. “Lifestyle of the Hohokam” is designed to give children an idea of how the ancient Hohokam lived and how some aspects of everyday life have changed and others have stayed the same.

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Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s OPENOUT (Old Pueblo Education Neighborhood Outreach) program offers 45 to 60 minute presentations by a professional archaeologist. They constructed the “Casa Grande” shown in this photograph, and produced magnificent arts and crafts. The Hohokam mastered their Sonoran Desert environment by utilizing its varied plant, animal, and mineral resources and by establishing hundreds of miles of irrigation canals to grow their own food. “Lifestyle of the Hohokam” is about the archaeological culture that inhabited most of southern Arizona for the 1,000-year period between A.D.