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Mogollon culture

North American Indian culture
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Mogollon culture, prehistoric North American Indian peoples who, from approximately ad 200–1450, lived in the mostly mountainous region of what are now southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. Their name derives from the Mogollon Mountains in New Mexico. The culture is presumed to have developed out of the earlier Cochise culture, with additional influences from elsewhere. The first pottery in the Southwest was made by the Mogollon, and it was well made from the beginning,...

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