As you breeze through Scottsdale’s triple-digit summer by enjoying your air-conditioned home as well as a refrigerator full of icy treats, entertainment/technology and backyard pool, think about how we used to live here. Warning: this might cause you to break into a sweat. Going back about 2,000 years, archaeologists have found evidence that the Upland Hohokam People lived in brush-covered pit homes in the Pinnacle Peak area. They got their water from mountain springs which have since dried … [Read more...]

As cities go, Scottsdale’s a mere youngster as 65. Despite its youth, the city, its residents and businesses have quite a history of accomplishment since incorporating in 1951. Just a few milestones that got us to today: Archaeologists and Native American communities trace the human history of Scottsdale back at least 8,000 years when Archaic people seasonally hunted around the McDowell Mountains. Riverine Hohokam people farmed areas near the Salt River; Upland Hohokam settled in the … [Read more...]