The Economist (US), February 17th, 1990
DILLAC DESESRT. By Marc Reisner. Secker & Warburg; 582 pages; (British lbs.)E25. Viking Penguin; $22.95 NOBODY is quite sure what became of the Hohokam Indians. They lived, until about 1400, in what is now central Arizona, and were among the most advanced civilisations on the American continent. They built cities; they designed four-storey buildings; they traded with their neighbours to the south. Above all they managed a successful agrarian culture in the desert, building irrigation canals and ditches so perfectly calibrated that they delivered water at a rate that flushed out silt deposits ...
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