The Archaeology of Southeast Arizona
Author | : Gordon Bronitsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Archaeological surveying |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Gordon Bronitsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Archaeological surveying |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John C. Ravesloot |
Publisher | : ASM Archaeological |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781889747873 |
This volume describes the archaeological investigations and syntheses of research that William Self Associates, Inc. (WSA), conducted at the Marsh Station Road site, an extensive, multi-component, semi-permanent habitation site with occupations spanning the Early Agricultural period through the Hohokam Classic period and located southeast of Tucson.
Author | : Jefferson Reid |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2016-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0816534942 |
Carved from cliffs and canyons, buried in desert rock and sand are pieces of the ancient past that beckon thousands of visitors every year to the American Southwest. Whether Montezuma Castle or a chunk of pottery, these traces of prehistory also bring archaeologists from all over the world, and their work gives us fresh insight and information on an almost day-to-day basis. Who hasn't dreamed of boarding a time machine for a trip into the past? This book invites us to step into a Hohokam village with its sounds of barking dogs, children's laughter, and the ever-present grinding of mano on metate to produce the daily bread. Here, too, readers will marvel at the skills of Clovis elephant hunters and touch the lives of other ancestral people known as Mogollon, Anasazi, Sinagua, and Salado. Descriptions of long-ago people are balanced with tales about the archaeologists who have devoted their lives to learning more about "those who came before." Trekking through the desert with the famed Emil Haury, readers will stumble upon Ventana Cave, his "answer to a prayer." With amateur archaeologist Richard Wetherill, they will sense the peril of crossing the flooded San Juan River on the way to Chaco Canyon. Others profiled in the book are A. V. Kidder, Andrew Ellicott Douglass, Julian Hayden, Harold S. Gladwin, and many more names synonymous with the continuing saga of southwestern archaeology. This book is an open invitation to general readers to join in solving the great archaeological puzzles of this part of the world. Moreover, it is the only up-to-date summary of a field advancing so rapidly that much of the material is new even to professional archaeologists. Lively and fast paced, the book will appeal to anyone who finds magic in a broken bowl or pueblo wall touched by human hands hundreds of years ago. For all readers, these pages offer a sense of adventure, that "you are there" stir of excitement that comes only with making new discoveries about the distant past.
Author | : William Emery Doolittle |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780816524280 |
Crisscrossing Pleistocene terrace tops and overlooking the Gila River in southeastern Arizona are acres and acres of rock alignments that have perplexed archaeologists for a century. Well known but poorly understood, these features have long been considered agricultural, but exactly what was cultivated, how, and why remained a mystery. Now we know. Drawing on the talents of a team of scholars representing various disciplines, including geology, soil science, remote sensing, geographical information sciences (GISc), hydrology, botany, palynology, and archaeology, the editors of this volume explain when and why the grids were built. Between A.D. 750 and 1385, people gathered rocks from the tops of the terraces and rearranged them in grids of varying size and shape, averaging about 4 meters to 5 meters square. The grids captured rainfall and water accumulated under the rocks forming the grids. Agave was planted among the rocks, providing a dietary supplement to the maize and beans that were irrigated on the nearby bottom land, a survival crop when the staple crops failed, and possibly a trade commodity when yields were high. Stunning photographs by Adriel Heisey convey the vastness of the grids across the landscape.
Author | : Richard C. Lange |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "figures and graphics ..."--CD-ROM label.
Author | : Henry D. Wallace |
Publisher | : Cda Anthropological Papers |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Roots of Sedentism takes the reader to one of the most inadequately understood points of cultural transformation in prehistory: the origins of settled village life and the origins of a dynamic culture in the American Southwest, the Hohokam. The results of large-scale excavations at Valencia Vieja, a pristine early village in the southern Tucson Basin founded in the fifth century is presented. Occupied for no more than 275 years, the village was left untouched until archaeologists began excavation. Estimated to have over 400 pit structures, Valencia Vieja residential, activity, and refuse zones were arranged in concentric rings around a central plaza that contained a probable cemetery. Comprehensive testing and extensive horizontal excavations resulted in an unusually complete picture of village structure and growth. A sequence of rebuilding episodes is documented, detailing the impacts of aggregation and early sociopolitical developments. Radiocarbon dates, house-rebuilding sequences, and key artifacts provided strong dating control and permitted comparison with similarly dated remains elsewhere in the Hohokam region of southern Arizona. The rise of maintained aggregation, residential permanence, and the establishment of permanent ritual facilities were key factors in the growth of Hohokam Culture. This volume has much to offer for scholars interested in the effects of sedentism and aggregation in agricultural societies and is a boon to Hohokam archaeologists who have strived to understand the origins of this desert culture.
Author | : J. Cameron Greenleaf |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 123 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0816504970 |
The Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona No. 26. Salvage archaeology explores Indian cultural development during Rillito, Rincon, and Tanque Verde phases.
Author | : Stephanie Michelle Whittlesey |
Publisher | : Statistical Research |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781879442948 |
This book tells the story of water control and its impact on human history in Arizona as we understand it from Central Arizona Project archaeology.