Macroscale Analysis of Faunal Remains in the Hohokam Area of Southern Arizona: Preliminary Results

Summary

Pre-Contact societies in southern Arizona developed large-scale, agriculturally-based communities with essentially no access to domesticated meat. Their hunting opportunities were limited, as well, by the need to live close to water sources for irrigation. The resulting trade-offs between community needs have important implications for political organization, labor choices, and gender roles. In this poster, we present preliminary results of a GIS analysis of relationships between species representation and environmental characteristics in the Hohokam area. We examine the effects of agricultural labor constraints, species habitat constraints, and diachronic changes in human population on archaeofaunal patterns. Our data set consists of over 100 faunal assemblages ranging from the Early Agricultural Period to the Hohokam Classic Period, covering a wide range of micro-environments in southern Arizona.

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

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