English
Oasisamerica
From oasis + America.
The story
Coined by German-Mexican anthropologist Paul Kirchhoff in 1954.
Today it means
name A broad cultural area of pre-Columbian southwestern North America, between Utah and Chihuahua, and bordering the Gulf of California, on the Mexican mainland.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Oasisamerica