Hohokam (Other Keyword)

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Memes of Hohokam Pottery: the Spread of Ceramic Traditions from the Middle Gila River, Arizona (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Lack. Mary Ownby.

This is an abstract from the "Cross-Cultural Petrographic Studies of Ceramic Traditions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The idea of memes, as coined by Dawkins, originally referred to an element of a culture or behavior that is passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means. It was used to examine how cultural phenomenon replicate, mutate, survive, or become extinct. This has clear applications to ceramic traditions where the cultural...


Mesa Grande and Its World: An Analysis of Intrusive Pottery Types Recovered from Mesa Grande and Their Social Implications (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jerry Howard. Chris Caseldine. David Abbott. David Wilcox.

Mesa Grande, one of the two largest Hohokam platform mound villages in the lower Salt River Valley, Arizona, contains an exceptionally large and diverse excavated sample of intrusive, diagnostic pottery types that have been cross-dated with tree-ring dates in other regions. Complexes of these intrusive types in a stratigraphically defined sequence at the site provide new insight into calendrical age of the mound and its associated compounds, allowing us to test recent suggestions that Mesa...


Mesoamerica en la frontera: Understanding Large-Scale Connectivity Using Hohokam and Trincheras Pottery Designs (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Hunter Claypatch.

This is an abstract from the "Crossing Boundaries: Interregional Interactions in Pre-Columbian Times" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. More than merely a physical barrier, the international border between the United States and Mexico has become an ideological boundary that shapes modern perceptions of prehistoric cultures and limits the transfer of academic knowledge. Such is the case in the study of the prehistoric Hohokam and Trincheras...


Mind the Gap: Absolute Dating of Middle Gila River Canals provides Evidence for 1,500 Years of Continuous Irrigation Agriculture in the Phoenix Basin (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only R. Scott Plumlee. M. Kyle Woodson. Craig Fertelmes. Chris Loendorf. Steven Forman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Evidence suggests that the first irrigation canals along the Middle Gila River were built by at least the Vahki phase ca. AD 450, and the construction and use of canals continued throughout the remainder of prehistory. Canal systems are also a prominent part of the historical lifeway of the Akimel O'Odham who live in the Hohokam core area today, with reported...


Mineralogical and Micromorphological Analysis of Gypsum Washes at Casa Grande National Monument (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine Williams. Angelyn Bass. Douglas Porter.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The great house at Casa Grande National Monument, Arizona, occupied circa 1350-1450 CE, is a four-story Hohokam structure made of puddled earth. All of the interior surfaces are finished similarly with individual clay (illite and palygorskite) and gypsum washes. Together, these two fine-finish materials give the walls a uniquely consistent red color and sheen....


Modeling Water Allocation and Scheduling in Canal System 2 (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jerry Howard.

A great deal of progress has been made in understanding the physical layout, paleohydraulics and sociopolitical organization of Hohokam Irrigation systems. A relatively comprehensive database now exists for Canal System 2 identifying the location of main canals and the configuration and size of canal channels. Models of the available discharge, or the quantity of water available at points along the main canals, have been constructed. However, our understanding of the sequencing and nature of...


A Monument of Memories: The Pueblo Grande Platform Mound (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Todd Bostwick. Douglas Mitchell. Laurene Montero.

This is an abstract from the "WHY PLATFORM MOUNDS? PART 1: MOUND DEVELOPMENT AND CASE STUDIES" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Located at the head of a large canal system in Phoenix, the Pueblo Grande platform mound is one of the largest structures ever built by the Hohokam. This building is nearly 4 m in height, 4,000 m2 in area, and incorporates 16,000 cubic m of rock, trash, soil, and structural remains in its cell-like design. Although built in...


New but Classic: An examination of Hohokam Canal System 1 during the Classic Period (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris Caseldine.

Canal System 1, the largest of the four major systems along the lower Salt River, brought water to fields associated with some of the most well-known Hohokam villages, including Mesa Grande, Los Hornos, and Los Muertos. Previously, it was thought that the system reached its maximum extent prior to the Sedentary Period. Recent data and reconstructions of the development of Canal System 1, however, indicate that the system may not have reached its full extent until the Preclassic/Classic...


Nuh nuhy Himdag. The Role of Song in the Identification of O’Odham Traditional Cultural Properties (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only J Andrew Darling. Barnaby V. Lewis. M. Kyle Woodson.

The Gila River Indian Community Tribal Historic Preservation Office and Cultural Resource Management Program have been engaged in Traditional Cultural Property (TCP) inventory for more than two decades. This presentation considers the role of Nuh nuhy Himdag (song culture) in TCP identification with specific reference to a recent study of Vainom Do’ag (Iron Mountain), which, based on a ruling by the United States Board of Geographic Names in 2008, was named Piestewa Peak in honor of the first...


Observations on Collaboration between O'odham and Hendrix Students (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Brett Hill. Bernard Siquieros.

Historically, anthropologists have tended to treat Native Americans as subjects more than as colleagues. This tendency is in the midst of reorientation as Native people everywhere assert their interest in heritage through the modes of Western professional discourse. We have recently worked together on a collaborative educational project to bring together O’odham and non-Native students to consider heritage from multiple perspectives. Together, we visited museums, monuments, archaeological sites,...


An Overview of Architectural Practice at the Ironwood Village, Northern Tucson Basin, Arizona (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Kye Miller.

This paper provides a brief review of the Ironwood Village site structure, an overview of architectural styles observed at the site, a discussion of variation in architectural practice observed at the site, and a regional comparison of Hohokam pit structure architecture within the greater Tucson Basin. Data recovery at the Ironwood Village site resulted in the discovery of nearly a hundred Pioneer and Colonial period architectural features. The area investigated was centered around a large...


P-Map: Digitizing the village of Pueblo Grande (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Laurene Montero. Douglas Mitchell. Zachary Rothwell. Stephanie Sherwood. Steven Rascona.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The prehistoric Hohokam village of Pueblo Grande, in the heart of Phoenix, was established as a City park and museum in 1929. The site includes one of the largest platform mounds in Arizona, a ballcourt (possibly two), thousands of features, and once contained a tower-like structure. Excavations have been conducted at Pueblo Grande since as early as 1901...


A Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of the Trincheras Tradition: Community, Identity, and Foodways (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Cinthia Campos.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Trincheras Tradition thrived in the Altar Valley, Sonora, Mexico between AD 400 to 1400. The Hohokam are known for their extensive irrigation systems and reliance on agriculture. Lacking evidence of similar features, the Trincheras were interpreted as primarily hunters and gatherers, a rustic branch of the Hohokam. This characterization of Trincheras...


A Path Forward: Casa Grande as Metaphor (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Brett Hill.

This is an abstract from the "Why Platform Mounds? Part 2: Regional Comparisons and Tribal Histories" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Two of the most iconic cultural symbols in the American Southwest are the O’odham Man in the Maze and Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. In this paper I illustrate a possible connection between them that might resolve some of their enduring mystery. From the merging of these symbols, a new perspective on the...


The Path of Hua’m A Nui: Aggrandizement among the Classic Period Phoenix Basin Hohokam (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Watkins. Christopher Garraty. Travis Cureton. Dave Bustoz. Erik Steinbach.

O’Odham oral histories describes the overthrow of Hua’m a Nui (Yellow Buzzard) and other arrogant rulers of platform mound villages in the Phoenix Basin. These oral histories are consistent with archaeological data that point to increasing social stratification during the Classic Period. This paper addresses the question of how the household-based egalitarianism of the Preclassic developed into Late Classic hierarchy. Leveling mechanisms that previously channeled aggrandizers into socially...


Pima Community College Excavation at the Dairy Site, AZ AA:12:285 (ASM) (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Emiliano Walker. Christian Mathews. Jeffrey Jones.

This is an abstract from the "Community Matters: Enhancing Student Learning Opportunities through the Development of Community Partnerships" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Dairy Site, AZ AA:12:285 (ASM), was first recorded in 1982 in Tucson, Arizona and in the three decades since, many investigations have been conducted. The boundaries of the site have been ever-growing, now extend well beyond the 1982 limits, and thus far are not well...


Platform Mound Communities along the Middle Gila River (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyle Woodson. Chris Loendorf.

This is an abstract from the "Why Platform Mounds? Part 2: Regional Comparisons and Tribal Histories" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Extensive archaeological evidence shows that major shifts in settlement patterns occurred over time within the Phoenix Basin, and it appears that population densities along the lower Salt and middle Gila Rivers fluctuated through time, such that periods of high density along one stream correspond with concurrent...


Platform Mounds and Ethnographic Analogy Revisited: Defining the Functional Universe (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Elson.

This is an abstract from the "Why Platform Mounds? Part 2: Regional Comparisons and Tribal Histories" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological data from Southwest U.S. platform mound sites will likely not satisfactorily resolve the question of platform mound function and social organization. This is due to the ambiguities inherent in our data base and in our limited opportunities to excavate these features. Because of this, explanations given...


Political Water: Hohokam Irrigation and Sociopolitical Organization in Canal System 2, Lower Salt River Valley, Central Arizona (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Caseldine.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the publishing of Irrigation Communities: A Comparative Study in 1955, sociopolitical hierarchy has factored strongly in interpretations of irrigation system control. A lively debate has developed as to where control lies, ranging from a central authority (top-down) to water user cooperatives (bottom-up). Although Hohokam irrigation has appeared in that...


Portals to the Past: Public Architecture and Storytelling Traditions in Hohokam Society (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David Jacobs. Douglas Craig.

This is an abstract from the "Why Platform Mounds? Part 2: Regional Comparisons and Tribal Histories" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Culture is adaptive, and defined as a group's learned, shared set of beliefs and behavior patterns that are transmitted across generations. Research at Hohokam sites indicates the presence of long-term well-established residential groups who tend to reside next to public spaces, the location of platform mounds in the...


Pots, Middlemen, and the "Shopkeeper" Hypothesis in the Hohokam Sedentary Period (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Joshua Watts.

While ceramic analysts now report with some confidence where most Phoenix Basin Hohokam pottery was manufactured and where it was eventually discarded, we simply cannot use those two data points on their own to describe the exchange rules and distribution networks that moved pottery from specialist producers to consumers throughout the region. Agent-based modeling methods provide a powerful toolkit for interpreting complex spatial and distributional patterns in the archaeological record, and for...


Pre-Classic Obsidian in the Northern Tucson Basin (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Higgins.

This poster focuses on the investigation of sourced obsidian artifacts found in and around the Cañada del Oro Valley in southeastern Arizona. The goal of this study is to understand the evolution of social interaction and obsidian distribution during the pre-classic Hohokam periods (ca. A.D. 700-1150) and how they compare to patterns in neighboring areas. There are no obsidian sources immediately adjacent to the Cañada del Oro Valley or Tucson Basin regions. Therefore, investigation of obsidian...


Pre-Columbian Agaves in the Southwestern United States: Discovering Lost Crops among the Hohokam and other Arizona Cultures (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Wendy Hodgson. Andrew Salywon.

This is an abstract from the "Frontiers of Plant Domestication" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The importance of agaves to Mesoamerica and its cultures has long been recognized, providing food, fiber and beverage. However, their significance to these cultures has overshadowed and distorted the plants’ role for indigenous peoples north of the U.S. - Mexico border. Pre-Columbian farmers grew no less than six and possibly as many as eight or more...


Probing the Nexus between Hohokam Demography and Agricultural Productivity across the Pre-Classic/Classic Transition (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Aaron Wright. Colleen Strawhacker.

The onset of the Hohokam Classic Period witnessed the consolidation of settlements within the major river valleys of southern Arizona, a demographic reorganization that culminated after centuries of regional expansion, population growth, and cultural florescence. In the Salt River Valley, the resultant demographic packing was unprecedented and appears to have promoted environmental degradation, aggravated biological stress, and suppressed birth rates. It has been suggested that communities...


Reassembling Salado: Salado Polychrome Ceramics in the Phoenix Basin (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Wichlacz.

This is an abstract from the "Mogollon, Mimbres, and Salado Archaeology in Southwest New Mexico and Beyond" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents the results of dissertation research examining manifestations of the Salado phenomenon at Hohokam sites in the Phoenix basin of Arizona, investigating how Salado polychrome (Roosevelt Red ware) ceramics were incorporated into contemporaneous Hohokam ceramic assemblages and practices during...