Indian Artifacts: Southwest Area

Indian artifacts: Southwest area. There are four major cultural in this area.
The first of these is Mogollon Indians culture , which takes its name from its location in the Mogollon Mountains which run diagonally from north-central Arizona southeastward into New Mexico. It is still less certain what happened to the prehistoric Mogollon Indians and who their modern relatives may be.

The second of these is the Anasazi Indians culture, that take place of the high plateau country of northern Arizona, the southern edge of Utah, southwestern Colorado, and most of northern New Mexico. The archaeological cultural of the Anasazi Indians can be related to descendant historic and modern Indians culture of this area. The present Pueblo Indian still live on the sites. Among the Pueblo Indians are the Hopi Indians and Zuni Indian in the west and the Rio Grande town of the east.

The third is the Hohokam, the desert of central and southern Arizona and adjacent Mexican Sonora. The name Hohokam refers to the Indians prehistoric cultures of the subarea. In the southern Arizona desert, the relationships of the present-day Pima Indians and Papago Indians to the ancient Hohokam Indian peoples is less certain but nevertheless probable.

The fourth is the Patayan. The Patayan centers in the Colorado river valley in a desert environment that more severe than the Hohokam area, except for the Colorado River floods. The Indians here practiced farming in the flood plains of Colorado.
In the Patayan subarea, the modern Yuma-speaking Indians, the Havasupai Indians, Yavapai Indians and Walapai Indians are believed to  be the descendants of the prehistoric Patayan.