essay
Hohokam households, settlement structure, and economy in the Lower Verde Valley
hohokam village revisited • Glenwood Springs, Colo. • Published In 2000 • Pages: 65-100
By: Ciolek-Torrello, Richard, Klucas, Eric E., Whittlesey, Stephanie Michelle.
Abstract
Most studies of prehistoric household organization have focused on identifying and describing households as elements of social structure. Such studies have taken a static view of households that emphasize continuity in form through time and space. In this paper, Flannery's (1972) model that relates agricultural dependence, sedentism, household organization, and settlement structure is applied to prehistoric social organization in the Sonoran Desert and more specifically, in the lower Verde River Valley of central Arizona. [The authors] propose that the transition from mobile, foraging/farming social groups to sedentary, maize-dependent riverine social groups was associated with important organizational changes involving the emergence of household production and hereditary land ownership (p. 65).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2010
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle; 2009
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- 2000-500 BP (AD 1-1500)
- Coverage Place
- Verde River valley, south-central Arizona, United States
- Notes
- Richard Ciolek-Torrello, Eric E. Klucas, Stephanie M. Whittlesey
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-100)
- LCSH
- Hohokam culture