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Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:49:22 +0100

The most remote history of the
occupation of the Far North West
goes back to the Cochise culture
of hunter gatherers. This people
inhabited part of the Mexican states
of Chihuahua and Sonora, and the
American states of Arizona,
New Mexico, Utah and Colorado.
Although meso-America had
already been settled, the presence
of some rivers in this region led
to the development after 700 A.D.
of stable agricultural societies
including the Hohokam, Mogollon
and Anasazi, who domesticated the
turkey and farmed maize, beans,
squash, tomato and chili. To ensure
better crops and to avoid erosion,
they built terraces and canals
that transported water over
great distances.

Their form of social organization
did not develop to such a complex
degree as the cultures of meso-America, but we know that they
maintained relations and contact
took place among them. Between
these two regions lay the great
expanse of the Chichimec lands.