Mogollon, << moh guh YOHN, >> were a prehistoric Native American people who lived in eastern Arizona and western New Mexico from about 500 B.C. to A.D. 1300. The early Mogollon lived in villages of pit houses. Later, they built stone and adobe pueblo villages. They gathered wild berries and seeds, hunted, and farmed corn and other crops. They used stone tools. The Mogollon made tobacco pipes of stone or baked clay. They decorated pottery with figures and geometric designs in red and brown or black and white. The pottery of the Mimbres people, a branch of the Mogollon, was among the finest made anywhere in North America north of Mexico. After 1300, the Mogollon joined with neighboring groups in the Rio Grande region.
