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The social consequences of irrigation agriculture: a perspective from Meddler Point
roosevelt community development study: new perspectives on tonto basin prehistory • (15) • Published In 1995 • Pages: 227-249
By: Craig, Douglas B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Craig presents a model of the potential agricultural strategies and examines the connection between construction of the platform mound near the end of the Meddler Point site's abandonment and a shift to a centralized form of irrigation management, but one that was structured horizontally rather than vertically. Craig examines environmental conditions for period of time before and after the site's abandonment and suggests that the mound 'served a largely ritual, non-domestic function...' (page 228) that would have made it a high level integrative facility.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Agriculture
- Real property
- Water supply
- Structures
- Social relationships and groups
- Status, role, and prestige
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Hohokam
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1200-675 BP (AD 800-1325)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Meddler Point site (AZ V:5:4/26), Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Douglas B. Craig
- Submitted to Arizona Projects Office, Bureau of Reclamation, Contract No. 1-CS-32-01220
- For bibliographical references see document 31:Elson et al
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hohokam culture