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1. CGRAVC_170715_009.JPG: Hohokam Culture
2. CGRAVC_170715_025.JPG: Timeline of the Hohokam
3. CGRAVC_170715_037.JPG: Ancient Astronomy of the Hohokam
4. CGRAVC_170715_043.JPG: Casa Grande Ruins
5. CGRAVC_170715_049.JPG: The Great House depicted in an 1880s photograph prior to stabilization work and construction of the first of two protective roof structures. View from the northeast.
6. CGRAVC_170715_059.JPG: An aerial view of the Casa Grande Ruins taken in 1931. The perimeter walls of Compound A, as well as partial walls of individual structures, are visible. The Great House is protected by an earlier roof structure.
7. CGRAVC_170715_085.JPG: Archeological Sites of Arizona
8. CGRAVC_170715_087.JPG: Hohokam Pithouse
9. CGRAVC_170715_094.JPG: Classic Period Structures
10. CGRAVC_170715_100.JPG: Ramadas
11. CGRAVC_170715_108.JPG: Classic Period Hohokam House
12. CGRAVC_170715_115.JPG: The Great House
13. CGRAVC_170715_118.JPG: Customs and Rituals
14. CGRAVC_170715_121.JPG: Platform Mounds
15. CGRAVC_170715_140.JPG: The consistent rectangular shape and location of platform mounds within compounds, along with the placement of compounds and platform mounds around plazas and ballcourts, indicates that the Hohakam had a shared view or understanding of the symbolic worth of platform mounds.
16. CGRAVC_170715_149.JPG: Ballcourts
17. CGRAVC_170715_162.JPG: Burial Practices and Beliefs
18. CGRAVC_170715_165.JPG: Petroglyphs
19. CGRAVC_170715_170.JPG: The Mystery Continues
20. CGRAVC_170715_180.JPG: Field Work
21. CGRAVC_170715_191.JPG: In honor of our Ancestors by Jacob Butler and Ron Carlos
22. CGRAVC_170715_218.JPG: In honor of our O'odham People by Ron Carlos and Jacob Butler
23. CGRAVC_170715_228.JPG: Classic
24. CGRAVC_170715_231.JPG: Pioneer
25. CGRAVC_170715_233.JPG: Colonial
26. CGRAVC_170715_235.JPG: Sedentary
27. CGRAVC_170715_238.JPG: Classic
28. CGRAVC_170715_241.JPG: Hohokam Trade Networks
29. CGRAVC_170715_248.JPG: Obsidian: Jewels of the Archaeological Record
30. CGRAVC_170715_258.JPG: Desert Lifestyle
31. CGRAVC_170715_261.JPG: Stone Crusher
32. CGRAVC_170715_265.JPG: Potsherds
33. CGRAVC_170715_269.JPG: Cultivating Desert Crops
34. CGRAVC_170715_272.JPG: Gila River Canals
35. CGRAVC_170715_277.JPG: Olla
36. CGRAVC_170715_279.JPG: A photograph of the olla where it was found in a corner of the southwest building of Compound A during the excavations of 1906.
37. CGRAVC_170715_281.JPG: Desert Farming
38. CGRAVC_170715_298.JPG: The Sonoran Desert of the Hohokam
39. CGRAVC_170715_304.JPG: Shards by Delphia Anderson
40. CGRAVC_170715_316.JPG: Stephen Tyng Mather July 4, 1867 - Jan. 22, 1930 He laid the foundation of the National Park Service defining and establishing the policies under which its areas shall be developed and conserved unimpaired for future generations. There will never come an end to the good that he has done.
41. CGRAVC_170715_318.JPG: Temperature was about 104
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Wikipedia Description: Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
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Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, in Coolidge, Arizona, just northeast of the city of Casa Grande, preserves a group of Ancient Pueblo Peoples Hohokam structures of the Pueblo III and Pueblo IV Eras.

Ancient pueblos

The national monument consists of the ruins of multiple structures surrounded by a compound wall constructed by the ancient people of the Hohokam period, who farmed the Gila Valley in the early 13th century. "Archeologists have discovered evidence that the ancient Sonoran Desert people who built the Casa Grande also developed wide-scale irrigation farming and extensive trade connections which lasted over a thousand years until about 1450 C.E."

"Casa Grande" is Italian and Spanish for "big house" (Siwa� Wa'a Ki: in O'odham); these names refer to the largest structure on the site, which is what remains of a four story structure that may have been abandoned by 1450. The structure is made of caliche, and has managed to survive the extreme weather conditions for about seven centuries. The large house consists of outer rooms surrounding an inner structure. The outer rooms are all three stories high, while the inner structure is four stories high. The structures were constructed using traditional adobe processes. The wet adobe is thicker at the base and adds significant strength. Horizontal cracks can be noticed and this defines the breaks between courses on the thick outer walls. The process consisted of using damp adobe to form the walls and then waiting for it to dry, and then building it up with more adobe. Casa Grande contained a ball court much like that found at Pueblo Grande de Nevada. Father Eusebio Kino was the first European to view the Hohokam complex in November 1694 and named it Casa Grande. Graffiti from 19th-century passers-by is scratched into its walls; though this is now illegal. Casa Grande now has a distinctive modern roof covering built in 1932.

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