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Snaketown is the name of a former Native American settlement in Arizona's lower Gila River valley in the United States of America.
It was occupied by the Hohokam culture during its Pioneer and Early sedentary stages (300 BC - AD 1100). Snaketown was excavated by Emil Haury between 1964-5 who demonstrated that the site covered more than 1 square kilometre dotted with more than sixty midden mounds. A central plaza and two ball-courts were surrounded by pit houses and an elaborate irrigation system fed the nearby fields in which beans, maize and squash were grown. Industries producing pottery and shell jewellery also existed and the settlement had trade links with central American societies, using copper bells and figurines.
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