Hohokam Pima National Monument preserves Snaketown, a major ancient village in the Gila River Indian Community near Sacaton and one of the most important archaeological sites tied to the Hohokam, a desert-farming society that flourished across southern Arizona. Inhabited roughly from about 300 BCE to 1200 CE, Snaketown grew into a large settlement linked to surrounding farms and smaller communities along the Gila River. It is especially significant for its irrigation canals, pit-house settlement pattern, ceremonial earthworks, distinctive red-on-buff pottery, and evidence of craft production and long-distance exchange, making it a central place in the rise of Hohokam society.