Also called Hakataya, a Yuman-speaking cultural tradition of the lower Colorado and Gila River valleys, extending west to Lake Cahuilla in California and Baja California and north toward the Grand Canyon; known for buff ware pottery, ceramic effigies, and pithouse settlements, with close trade ties to the neighboring Hohokam.
Non-terminal — Patayan lifeways persisted through the historic period and underlie the modern Yuman-speaking peoples of the lower Colorado River region (including the Quechan, Mohave, Cocopah, and Havasupai), rather than ending in a single collapse.
Standard Southwest-archaeology textbook that situates Patayan/Hakataya alongside the Hohokam and Ancestral Puebloan traditions.