P-Map: Digitizing the village of Pueblo Grande

Summary

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 and continue to the present. To date, over ¾ of this extensive village has been excavated. The Pueblo Grande Village Mapping Project (P-Map) is a modern continuation of the mapping efforts begun by Adolph Bandelier more than a century ago. This project was created to establish a geodatabase structure for the storage and access of Pueblo Grande spatial data. Following development of geodatabase schema, an ESRI file geodatabase was created into which existing project data from the Park and other projects were migrated. P-Map is an exciting example of combining legacy data and modern digital tools to provide research opportunities into prehistoric cultures and ultimately translating this data into museum focused, public education. We will continue to expand our P-Map team with other professionals, including Tribal representatives, and eventually plan to incorporate other Phoenix Hohokam villages into our study.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 35945.0