The Salado were clever farmers who built water channels directing flow from the Salt River to their fields. They grew maize, ...

But the Salado did. Also, squash ... They developed a new style of polychrome pottery, which villages in Mexico eventually began to copy. Their structures — platform mounds (multiroom buildings ...

The Salado were sophisticated farmers, growing corn, squash, beans, cotton and other crops. And they created an amazing variety of pottery, including the widely admired Gila polychrome ...

Researchers analyzed thousands of artifacts like this Salado polychrome ceramic bowl to learn about social networks in the pre-Hispanic Southwest between A.D. 1200 and 1450. This visual may only ...