Studies in the Hohokam Community of Marana

Editor(s): Glen E. Rice

Year: 1987

Summary

The Hohokam community of Marana is a complex of residential neighborhoods, agricultural fields, and seasonal gathering stations dispersed over an area of about 20 square miles. The Marana community complex is an example of a settlement type common to the Classic period of the Hohokam. The diagnostic characteristic of these complexes is the association of platform mounds, walled compounds, and large residential neighborhoods in a dispersed pattern covering several square miles (such as is found at the southern end of the Marana complex). It is also common to find other kinds of settlements and specialized sites occurring in the landscape surrounding the core area of a community complex.

In the spring and early summer of 1985 Arizona State University conducted excavations at the sites of Muchas Casas, Rancho Derrio, and Rancho Bajo. This work was funded by the Department of the Interior through the Bureau of Reclamation as part of their efforts to deal with the impacts associated with the construction of the Central Arizona Project Aqueduct. All three of these sites are residential areas. The Marana Archaeological Project did not conduct excavations at the Nelson Ranch site (with little doubt the organizational center for the Marana complex), because the site lay completely beyond the right-of-way of the aqueduct.

This monograph is the third in a set of volumes dealing with our investigations of the Marana community. The first volume is a research design (Rice 1985) for the investigation, and the second provides detailed results and descriptions of the field work (Henderson 1987a). The purpose of this volume is to detail the analyses and interpretations of our study.

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Studies in the Hohokam Community of Marana. Glen E. Rice. 1987 ( tDAR id: 77190) ; doi:10.6067/XCV877190

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Keywords

Culture
Hohokam

Material
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Fauna • Human Remains • Macrobotanical • Obsidian • Pollen • Shell

Site Name
AZ AA:12:1 (ASU) • AZ AA:12:2 (ASU) • AZ AA:12:251 (ASM) • AZ AA:12:3 (ASU) • AZ AA:12:331 (ASM) • AZ AA:12:368 (ASM) • AZ AA:12:466 (ASM) • Muchas Casas • Rancho Bajo • Rancho Derrio

Site Type
Adobe Pit House • Archaeological Feature • Ash Pit • Cremation • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Hearth • Pit • Pit House / Earth Lodge • Post Hole / Post Mold • Refuse Pit • Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno • Shade Structure / Ramada

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation • Site Evaluation / Testing

General
Bureau of Reclamation • Central Arizona Project • Tucson Aqueduct • X-Ray Flourescence

Geographic Keywords
04999 (Fips Code) • All Counties (County) • Arizona (State / Territory) • North America (Continent) • United States of America (Country)

Temporal Keywords
Classic Hohokam period

Spatial Coverage

min long: -114.817; min lat: 31.332 ; max long: -109.045; max lat: 37.004 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Salt River Project Cultural Resource Manager

Contributor(s): Dan Brooks; Suzanne K. Fish; T. Kathleen Henderson; Steven James; JoAnn Kisselburg; Charles Miksicek; Donald Morris; Glen Rice; Steven Shackley; Michael R. Waters

Prepared By(s): Office of Cultural Resource Management, Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University

Submitted To(s): U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation

Record Identifiers

Anthropological Field Studies No.(s): 15

NADB document id number(s): 2203664

SRP Library Barcode No.(s): 00030461

Contract No.(s): 5-CS-30-02570

NADB citation id number(s): 000000167766

Notes

General Note: Sent from: Arizona State University

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