The Cochise Tradition (also Cochise Culture) refers to the southern archeological tradition of the four Southwestern Archaic Traditions, in the present day Southwestern United States.The Cochise Tradition (?
before 5000 to c. 200 BEC) lasted for a very long time, with its earliest manifestations, known as Sulphur Spring, perhaps before 5000 BC.
Its two later phases, the Chiricahua and San Pedro, are much better known.
The Cochise Tradition was named after Lake Cochise, an ancient lake which is now Willcox Playa in Cochise County, Arizona.
The Cochise Tradition appears to ancestral to the prehistoric Mogollon (Mimbres) and Hohokam traditions.
