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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...