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Hohokam village5/5/2023 ![]() This issue proceeds roughly chronologically, beginning with articles about two early village sites continuing through the development of ballcourt communities and Middle Rincon phase settlements and rounding out with several pieces on Classic period sites and platform mound communities. has been refined, as has our understanding of settlement patterns, subsistence practice, and population dynamics-in essence, the origins and lifeways of the Hohokam. ![]() As a result of these developments, the chronology of the period between A.D. Ultimately, the pace of contract-funded research, which has risen steadily since the 1980s, has provided the impetus for new research to the present. Hohokam archaeology emerged from a period of near-dormancy in the mid-1970s with the advent of several key publications and the initiation of the Northern Tucson Basin Survey in 1981. The region was also included in studies of the Gila Pueblo Foundation, and Isabel Kelly was hired by the Foundation to excavate Tucson’s Hodges Ruin in the late 1930s. Huntington formulated a theory about the strong influence of environment on human behavior that was based in part on his observations at ancient sites around Tucson. Nearly a century ago, Ellsworth Huntington, a geographer from Yale University, undertook archaeology in the Tucson Basin and on what is now the Tohono O’odham Reservation. This issue of Archaeology Southwest Magazine highlights recent research in Hohokam archaeology in the Tucson Basin. Doelle, Archaeology Southwest (formerly the Center for Desert Archaeology) At the Interstate 10/Interstate 19 interchange pictured here, and in other locations as well, sites were also preserved for the future.Īrchaeology Southwest Magazine Vol. Major construction projects in Tucson over the past several decades have led to new insights into Hohokam archaeology. Late Classic Period Platform Mound Sites in the Tucson Basin – Henry D.The Shamrock Ruin: A Late Classic Compound – Robert Heckman and Jeffrey Altschul, Statistical Research, Inc.Jones, Tierra Right-of-Way, Ltd., and Ellen C. The Yuma Wash Site: A Classic Period Hohokam Settlement – Courtney Rose, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center.Elson and Patricia Cook, Desert Archaeology, Inc. Hohokam Life in the Eastern Tucson Basin – Mark D.Petroglyphs in the Dove Mountain Area – Henry D.The Archaeology of Dove Mountain at the Southern Margin of the Tortolita Mountains – Deborah L. ![]()
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