What We Know and What We Wished We Knew about Hohokam Platform Mounds
Author(s): David Abbott
Year: 2019
Summary
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.
In January 1888, Frank Hamilton Cushing rode his horse atop the Hohokam platform mound at Los Hornos in the lower Salt River valley, and took note of numerous other mounds that dotted the valley’s landscape. The monuments’ spacing led Cushing to conceive of the valley-wide settlement as an integrated network for communication and irrigation management, and archaeologists have been trying to figure out the settlement structure and organization ever since. Today, the evidence from platform mounds fuels vigorous discussion of their significance from multiple perspectives. When synthesized, the mound data steer us towards refined insights about Hohokam communities.
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What We Know and What We Wished We Knew about Hohokam Platform Mounds. David Abbott. Presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM. 2019 ( tDAR id: 451628)
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Keywords
Geographic Keywords
North America: Southern Southwest U.S.
Spatial Coverage
min long: -123.97; min lat: 25.958 ; max long: -92.549; max lat: 37.996 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 23610