essay
Organization of trade and craft production in a Gila Phase Platform Mound complex
synthesis of tonto basin prehistory : the roosevelt archaeology studies, 1989 to 1998 • Tempe, Ariz. • Published In 1998 • Pages: 131-152
By: Rice, Glen.
Abstract
A number of researchers, although differing on specifics, have posited that platform mounds were centers that managed various kinds of economic interaction (p. 131). They believed that leaders at the platform mounds were involved in the management of one or more of the following activities: long-distance exchange; craft production; the allocation of water through canal systems; and the redistribution of subsistence resources. In his analysis of the Cline Terrace Mound, Rice negates many of these suppositions, stating in effect that the settlements clustered around platform mounds were not dependent on them for some kind of centralized economic service, but instead these mounds served essentially as storage facilities for quantities of materials not essential to subsistence and survival; as a central place in which peope from surrounding settlements gathered in public facilities for events and ceremonies; and as a location for acrhitecturally elaborate private residences (presumably for the elite).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2010
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle; 2009
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- 680-550 BP (AD 1320-1450)
- Coverage Place
- Cline Terrace Mound, Arizona, United States
- Notes
- Glen E. Rice
- For bibliographic references see document 122:Rice
- LCCN
- 98053066
- LCSH
- Salado culture--Arizona--Tonto Basin
- Pueblo architecture--Arizona--Tonto Basin
- Pueblo Indians--Commerce
- Pueblo Indians--Funeral rite and ceremonies
- Land settlement patterns--Arizona--Tonto Basin
- Subsistence economy--Arizona--Tonto Basin
- Tonto Basin (Ariz.)--Antiquities