Oasisamerica
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[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Hohokam%2C_Ancestral_Pueblo%2C_and_Mogollon_cultures_circa_1350_CE.png/220px-Hohokam%2C_Ancestral_Pueblo%2C_and_Mogollon_cultures_circa_1350_CE.png)
Etymology
[edit]oasis + America. Coined by anthropologist Paul Kirchhoff in 1954.[1]
Proper noun
[edit]Oasisamerica
- A broad cultural area of pre-Columbian southwestern North America, between Utah and Chihuahua, and bordering the Gulf of California, on the Mexican mainland.
Coordinate terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Paul Kirchhoff, “Gatherers and farmers in the Greater Southwest: a problem in classification”, in American Anthropologist, 56 (1954) (Special Southwest Issue), pp. 529-550.