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Maps, chronology, platesessay 2007 • Fish, Suzanne K.
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
This document is composed of the various maps and plates mentioned in documents nos. 89-106. It also includes a time line and summary of the important changes that occurred within the Hohokam area in the last 4000 years....Marana sites pollen analysisessay 1987 • Fish, Suzanne K.
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
Fish analyzes and compares the pollen found at three sites. There is some indiction that cholla may have been a tended resource. 'Pollen samples ... suggest variation in patterns of food production and consumption among the three excavated sites.' (p...An evaluation of subsistence and specialization at the Marana sitesessay 1987 • Fish, Suzanne K.
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
Fish discusses the types of settlements and land use found within the four zones withing the Marana community. The Marana community is comprised of more than 320 sites and covers an area of about 50 square kilometers. She concentrates on summarizing ...Pollen analysis of samples from AZ CC:8:2 (ASU)essay 1984 • Fish, Suzanne K.
Mogollon • North America > Southwest and Basin
Suzanne K. Fish analyzed the pollen samples from the Duncan site. The results suggest that the environmental setting was similar to what it is today. Several of the samples were higher than expected for natural pollen rain indicating intentional use ...The Marana community in comparative contextessay 1992 • Fish, Suzanne K. & Fish, Paul R.
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
Fish and Fish compare the Marana Community to other Hohokam communities in Arizona. They compare settlement systems, canal systems, population size, settlement hierachies, and land use....Suggested readingessay 2007 • Fish, Suzanne K. & Fish, Paul R.
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
This document lists the suggested readings for documents 90 - 106 for those interested in further research....The Hohokam millenniumessay 2007 • Fish, Suzanne K. & Fish, Paul R.
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
Fish and Fish write a summary of the Hohokam. They include who the Hohokam were, what was remarkable about them, how they used their desert environment, and a little bit about early research on the Hohokam. This document is an introduction to eHRAF d...Civic-territorial organization and the roots of Hohokam complexityessay 2000 • Fish, Suzanne K. & Fish, Paul R.
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
The Hohokam trajectory exhibits cultural continuity for over a millennium as Hohokam societies attained a high level of complexity for the prehistoric Southwest. A degree of continuity marks some elements through which we study power relations, but o...Desert as contextessay 1991 • Fish, Suzanne K. & Nabhan, Gary Paul
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
Agricultural technology represents a major arena of interaction between the Hohokam and their Sonoran Desert environment which provided resources and opportunities that figured prominently in the development of the cultural identity of the people. Th...Evidence for large-scale agave cultivation in the Marana communityessay 1992 • Fish, Suzanne K. et al.
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
One of the significant results from the survey of the northern Tucson basin has been finding widespread agave cultivation, a new agricultural technology. Agave fields will contain rockpiles and low stone alignments. These features cover hundreds of h...Referencesessay 1992 • Fish, Suzanne K. et al.
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
This document contains the references for eHRAF documents nos. 80-88....An introduction to time, place, and researchessay 1992 • Fish, Suzanne K. et al.
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
Fish et al. present an introduction to eHRAF documents no. 80-88 and the Hohokam tradition. They discuss its diagnostic artifacts, its environmental setting, and the differences between the core, in the Phoenix basin, and the peripheral regions. They...Early sedentism and agriculture in the northern Tucson Basinessay 1992 • Fish, Suzanne K. et al.
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
Fish et al. discuss late Archaic and Early Ceramic sites in the Tucson basin. Early sedentism and agriculture occur together about 1000 years before the appearance of pottery. They discuss how and why people may have first settled into more permanent...Evolution and structure of the Classic period Marana communityessay 1992 • Fish, Suzanne K. et al.
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
Fish et al. describe how the Marana community evolved during the Preclassic and through the Classic periods. They compare the area of the settlements of the two periods as a way to estimate relative population for the two periods. The Marana platform...Parameters of agricultural production in the northern Tucson basinessay 1992 • Fish, Suzanne K. et al.
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
Fish et al. consulted with two traditional Sonoron desert farmers to gain a better understanding of how the different zones may have been farmed. They describe the environment, soil, and climate especially as it relates to how the land may have been ...The Marana Mound siteessay 2000 • Fish, Paul R. & Fish, Suzanne K.
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
Increasing Hohokam political and social complexity during the early Classic period is examined from the perspective of recent investigations at the Marana Mound site in the northern Tucson Basin. This site offers unique distributional information wit...Hohokam political and social organizationessay 1991 • Fish, Paul R. & Fish, Suzanne K.
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
Hohokam social and political organization is the primary focus of this article examined in large part by analogy to the comparable organizations among the Pima and Papago ethnic populations that succeeded the Hohokam in the region. Although much of t...Prehistoric villages and communities in the Arizona desertessay 2000 • Doyel, David E. (David Elmond) & Fish, Suzanne K.
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
This work provides a synopsis of Hohokam cultural history and a framework of themes and problems currently under investigation in the study of these people. Other topics discussed in this article include site structure, community patterns, scales of ...The northern Tucson Basin research settingessay 1987 • Henderson, T. Kathleen et al.
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
Henderson, Fish, and James describe the previous research in the Tucson basin, provide an environmental context by describing the geology, climate and the flora and fauna, and a summary of the what is known about the Hohokam in the Tuscon basin.They ...The Dairy siteessay 1992 • Fish, Paul R. et al.
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
Fish et al. discuss the findings from the excavations at the Dairy site. The site has a preceramic occupation from the late Archaic period. Also '[s]tudies at the Dairy Site (AZ AA:12:285) document subsistence activies from an initial interval of pla...