A Local Expression of "Salado" in Tonto Basin

Summary

"Salado" refers to a series of local expressions developed when populations were faced with the challenges of increased population sizes, migrants, and complexity. Local populations incorporated ceramic styles, iconography, architecture, and community organization from new arrivals and surrounding populations in ways that were adaptive and fostered integration. This brought migrants into the fold, albeit keeping them at a safe distance with limited participation and membership. To have excluded migrants would have led to attacks and raiding. Ceramic data, architecture, community rooms used for ritual observances, and burial data are used to examine one such local development in the Tonto Basin, Arizona.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• New Perspectives on Salado   •
• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)

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Spatial Coverage