Vanishing River Volume 4: Chapter 18: Research Design Revisited: Processual Issues in the Prehistory of the Lower Verde Valley

Part of the Lower Verde Archaeological project

Author(s): Richard Ciolek-Torello; Stephanie M. Whittlesey

Editor(s): Stephanie M. Whittlesey; Richard Ciolek-Torello; Jeffrey Altschul

Year: 1997

Summary

Chapter 18 provides a summary of the LVAP’s research themes and offers an overview of the research results. Ciolek-Torello synthesizes the chronology and cultural sequence of the lower Verde Valley. He places this sequence and its cultural developments in the context of other cultural sequences in central and southern Arizona. Whittlesey then summarizes the argument for an indigenous cultural tradition in the Transition Zone of central Arizona, one with roots in Mogollon prehistory and with close affiliations to the Sinagua tradition. Furthermore, she characterizes the zone as a joint use area, with individual places having unique histories that resulted from population movement. Next, Ciolek-Torello discusses the three primary adapative strategies that this prehistoric tradition employed in their occupation of this landscape: a foraging-farming strategy, a ráncheria-type village-farming strategy, and a nucleated puebloan-type village-framing strategy. He then moves to a discussion of processual research themes on social organization and adaptive strategies. He considers agricultural complexity, socio-cultural complexity, and the impact of adaptive mobility on a sequential hierarchical social structure. Ciolek-Torello concludes with an overview of this research’s implications for the interpretation of central Arizona prehistory and history.

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Vanishing River Volume 4: Chapter 18: Research Design Revisited: Processual Issues in the Prehistory of the Lower Verde Valley. Richard Ciolek-Torello, Stephanie M. Whittlesey, Stephanie M. Whittlesey, Richard Ciolek-Torello, Jeffrey Altschul. In Vanishing River: Landscapes and Lives of the Lower Verde Valley: The Lower Verde Archaeological Project: Overview, Synthesis, and Conclusions. Pp. 661-702. Tucson, AZ: Statistical Research, Inc. Press. 1997 ( tDAR id: 5931) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8BR8Q4J

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Keywords

Culture
Hohokam • Mogollon

Material
Building Materials • Ceramic • Dating Sample • Ground Stone • Human Remains

Site Name
Agate Site Complex • Bear Creek Village • Buh Bi Laa • Cow Wallow • CTC site • Damview site • Davenport Ruin • Deer Creek site • Deerjaw Ruin • Eagle Ridge site • East Fork site • Escalante Ruin • Hedge Apple • Howard Ruin • Ister Flat Ruin • La Escuela Cuba • Little House • Lizard Man Village • Lone Juniper site • Meddler Point • Mercer Ruin • Middendrum site • NA 10754 • NA 4616 • Ridge Ruin • Roadhouse Ruin • Schoolhouse Ppint • Scorpion Point Village • Shoofly Village • Spur Cross Ranch site • Ushklish Ruin • Walnut Creek Village • Winona Ruin Show More

Site Type
Agricultural Field or Field Feature • Agricultural or Herding • Ancient Communal / Public Structure • Ancient Earthwork • Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Ball Court • Canal or Canal Feature • Communal / Public Structure • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Hamlet / Village • Hearth • Midden • Mound / Earthwork • Non-Domestic Structures • Pit • Pit House / Earth Lodge • Platform Mound • Post Hole / Post Mold • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Rock Alignment • Room Block / Compound / Pueblo • Settlements • Shade Structure / Ramada • Water Control Feature Show More

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Data Recovery / Excavation • Environment Research • Ethnohistoric Research • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis • Records Search / Inventory Checking • Research Design / Data Recovery Plan • Systematic Survey

Geographic Keywords
Agua Fria drainage • Central Arizona • lower Verde River • Northern Sinagua • Tonto Basin

Temporal Keywords
Colonial Period • Hohokam Classic period • Hohokam Early Classic period • Hohokam Late Classic period • Hohokam pre-Classic period • Pioneer Period • Sedentary Period

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1 to 1450

Spatial Coverage

min long: -111.845; min lat: 33.804 ; max long: -111.591; max lat: 34.082 ;

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