There is evidence that the park and surrounding area have been continuously occupied since about 5000 BCE by the Hohokam people.
Archaeological finds have been recorded along the track of the adjacent Valley Metro light-rail construction.
A petroglyph by the Hohokam in White Tank Mountain Regional Park, Maricopa County, Arizona, has been interpreted as the first known North American representation of the supernova.
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However, in the 1980s, archaeologists discovered that large areas of agave, especially Agave murpheyi, had been cultivated by the Hohokam people in the Tucson Basin, near the city of Marana.
According to the author's website, future titles in the "People" series will include novels dealing with the Pacific Northwest in British Columbia; the high cultures of the Southeast, including Moundville, Alabama, and Etowa, Georgia; the Hohokam in southern Arizona; the Mimbres in New Mexico; and the Salado in the Salt River basin.