Sentence examples for Mogollon from high-quality English sources.

• The Mogollon lived in small villages of pit houses.

• The Mogollon made the first pottery in the Southwest.

• Their name comes from the Mogollon Mountains in New Mexico.

• Their name derives from the Mogollon Mountains in New Mexico.

• The original Mogollon most likely merged with the other peoples.

• The plants were probably dispersed from a center in the Mogollon Mountains.

• After abandoning their villages, the Mogollon dispersed, probably joining other groups.

• The Mogollon reached their artistic pinnacle during the Classic Mimbres Period (c. 1000–1150).

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• The Mogollon obtained most of their food by hunting and by gathering wild seeds, roots, and nuts.

• The people of the Mogollon culture were Native North Americans who lived from about ad 200 to 1450.

• Between about 650 and 850 the Mogollon began to build larger pit structures to serve as ceremonial kivas.

• Evidence from this period suggests that Ancestral Pueblo and Mogollon peoples lived peacefully in the same villages.

• There is evidence from this period that Ancestral Pueblo and Mogollon individuals lived peacefully in the same villages.

• The homeland of the Mogollon was the mountainous region of what are now southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico.

• Because of the rain shadow effect on the Mogollon Rim’s lee side, the Little Colorado usually is no more than a trickle and often is dry.

• Farming became important for subsequent residents including the Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi; c. ad 100–1600), the Mogollon (c. ad 200–1450), and the Hohokam (c. ad 200–1400).

Mogollon sentence examples

• The Gila River rises in that part of the Mogollon Rim located in western New Mexico, and it includes another and smaller Mogollon Rim tributary, the San Francisco River.

• The same basic pattern continued in the Mogollon 2, except that more varieties of pottery appeared and corn (maize) cultivation and the hunting of larger game such as deer assumed predominance.

• The Mogollon culture of New Mexico produced, during the Mimbres period of the 11th and 12th centuries, a ware remarkable for its lively black and white decoration depicting human, animal, and insect forms in a much less stylized manner than the paintings on most other wares from the southwest.

• In speaking about Mogollon culture generally, however, scholars frequently make reference to five developmental periods: Mogollon 1 and 2, approximately ad 200–650; Mogollon 3, 650–850; Mogollon 4, 850–1000; and Mogollon 5, 1000–1450, which includes the Classic Mimbres phase, 1050–1200.