Mogollon region

E632798

The Mogollon region is a cultural and geographic area of the ancient American Southwest and northern Mexico associated with the Mogollon archaeological tradition, known for its distinctive pottery, pit houses, and cliff dwellings.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Mogollon region canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural region
geographic region
archaeologicalCulture Jornada Mogollon NERFINISHED
Mimbres Mogollon NERFINISHED
Reserve Mogollon NERFINISHED
Upper Gila Mogollon NERFINISHED
associatedWith Mogollon archaeological tradition NERFINISHED
Mogollon culture NERFINISHED
borders Ancestral Puebloan region
Hohokam region NERFINISHED
characterizedBy agriculture based on maize
later above-ground masonry pueblos
mixed farming and foraging economy
semi-subterranean dwellings
small dispersed villages
extendsInto Chihuahua NERFINISHED
Sonora NERFINISHED
eastern Arizona
southern New Mexico
western New Mexico NERFINISHED
western Texas
hasEnvironment canyons
mountainous terrain
plateaus
semi-arid climate
hasSubregion Forested Mogollon Highlands NERFINISHED
Jornada Mogollon area NERFINISHED
Mimbres Valley NERFINISHED
Upper Gila region NERFINISHED
knownFor brownware pottery
cliff dwellings
corrugated pottery
distinctive pottery
painted pottery
pit houses
pithouse villages
locatedIn American Southwest NERFINISHED
northern Mexico NERFINISHED
namedAfter Mogollon Mountains NERFINISHED
partOf Greater Southwest NERFINISHED
Oasisamerica NERFINISHED
researchField Southwestern archaeology
significance key area for understanding prehistoric cultural development in the Southwest
timePeriod Formative period of the North American Southwest
timeSpan approximately 200 CE to 1450 CE

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Oasisamerica hasSubregion Mogollon region