Editing Cocopah (section)

===Precontact===
Ancestors of the Cocopah inhabited parts of present-day [[Arizona]], [[California]], and [[Baja California]] and are known by western academics as belonging to the [[Patayan culture]]. Patayan is a term used by archaeologists to describe prehistoric [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] cultures who inhabited parts of modern-day [[Arizona]], west to [[Lake Cahuilla]] in [[California]], and in [[Baja California]], between 700 and 1550 A.D. This included areas along the [[Gila River]], [[Colorado River]] and in the [[Lower Colorado River Valley]], the nearby uplands, and north to the vicinity of the [[Grand Canyon]]. They are mostly likely ancestors of the Cocopah and other Yuman-speaking tribes in the region. The Patayan peoples practiced [[floodplain agriculture]] where possible and relied heavily on [[hunter-gatherer|hunting and gathering]].