Oct. 21, 2009
Ancient Enigma Confirmed Thanks to Sky Train Construction
Archaeologists made an amazing discovery about the ancient Hohokam Indians thanks to preliminary construction work on PHX Sky Train ™. How the Hohokam, who inhabited the area around Sky Harbor from A.D. 450 to A.D. 1450, organized and plotted their feeder canals and farming fields had never been confirmed. Until now.
A three-month archaeological excavation, completed as construction of Sky Harbor’s PHX Sky Train kicked into high gear, revealed that through a combination of trenching and surface scraping, Hohokam farm plots were laid out side by side, with a feeder canal running along one side and small branch canals coming off the feeder canal, making each farm plot approximately 20-feet square. Get full story.