Flood-water farming, in which fields are planted where the floods of streams spread in thin sheets of water, is the most important type. The Hopi raise corn and beans, the staple foods, by four different methods. The Hopi country is too dry for growing crops by rainfall alone, so that special methods of farming are used. The villages are central to the fields on nearby mesa tops and in the broad valleys of the Tusayan Washes. These people are farmers who live in permanent houses built of stone and clustered in villages, located on the high southern spurs of Black Mesa near the springs. The population of the Hopi country numbers about 3000, mostly Hopi Indians, the western remnant of the larger Pueblo group who once occupied most of the southwest. Because of the relatively large quantities of dune sand resulting from this process, the Hopi country has a lower runoff after rain and more permanent springs than areas of similar climate nearby. These streams bring sand and silt from Black Mesa to the lower plains where the prevailing southwest winds separate them and carry the sand back northward to bank it against the escarpments of that part of Black Mesa which is the Hopi country. This mesa is drained by the southwestward-flowing, ephemeral streams of the Tusayan Washes, which separate the fingering prongs of the escarpment and thence flow into the barren plains leading to the Little Colorado River. The Hopi country lies on the southern escarpment of Black Mesa, a dissected highland about 60 miles in diameter underlain by resistant Upper Cretaceous sandstone. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at 2015, we added the following detailed abstract of the report to this tDAR record. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document.
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