Textile Production in the Emerging Hohokam Ballcourt World

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Local Development and Cross-Cultural Interaction in Pre-Hispanic Southwestern New Mexico and Southeastern Arizona" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The development of the Hohokam regional ballcourt system in the Phoenix basin caused an economic shift during the Colonial period that increased the need for trade goods. Surplus cotton became a valuable commodity for communities situated on heavily irrigated river valleys. This research hypothesizes that the presence of cotton is a good indicator of textile production with the emergence of ballcourts in the Colonial period. Botanical data on cotton ubiquity and standardized spindle whorl measurements provide data for identifying changes in textile production. This research presents data from the recently excavated site of East Pueblo Blanco and comparisons with similar indicators for the presence of cotton across other contemporary sites.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• Local Development and Cross-Cultural Interaction in Pre-Hispanic Southwestern New Mexico and Southeastern Arizona

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Abstract Id(s): 25196