Groups of Indians discovered the nutritive value of weed and grass seeds, ground to flour on flat rocks and made into gruels and breads. They found fewer mammoths each year, so they supplemented their diet with a variety of plant foods and smaller game. They also collected and ate plant foods.Īs the climate warmed and dried after the end of the Ice Age, mammoths and associated animals such as horses and camels began to disappear from North America. The carcasses of the ponderous beasts were butchered on the spot and the meat was cooked nearby.Īlthough best known for their mammoth hunting, the Paleo-Indians ate other types of animals including bison. Hunters trapped mammoths along streams and lakes and killed them with spears. Mammoths that thrived in the grassland were hunted by the Indians. These "Paleo-Indians" followed herds of big game into North America.īy 9500 B.C., bands of hunters wandered into southern Arizona, where they found a desert grassland. During the Ice Age, people migrated from Siberia across the Bering Strait into Alaska. The Hohokam were not the first to live in the Tucson Basin. They ably adapted themselves to the desert environment by farming along drainages and hunting and gathering in the desert and mountains. The Tucson Basin villagers were part of the larger Hohokam world, whose inhabitants lived in the Sonoran Desert of southern Arizona. Known today as the Hohokam (ho-ho-kam), these people built villages close to streams in order to farm the region's rich bottomlands. ReinhardĬenturies before Europeans first saw the Tucson Basin, a group of Indians with a distinctive way of life had settled there. Predecessors of the Hohokam AUTHOR: Linda M.
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