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Americas, The > Pre-Columbian (American) > <Pre-Columbian North American styles and periods> > Pre-Columbian North American styles > Pre-Columbian Western North American styles > Pre-Columbian Southwestern North American styles
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Prehistoric culture of the American Southwest, which flourished from the mid-thirteenth through sixteenth centuries, and was centered in the Tonto Basin of southeastern Arizona. A farming and trading people, the Salado lived in walled adobe compounds, practiced burial (rather than cremation) of their dead, and created distinctive polychrome ceramics.